By Paul Lathrop | Contributing Editor
Yehuda Remer, the self-promoted “Pew Pew Jew,” discussed his Second Amendment advocacy on the latest “Daily Bullet” video series produced by the Second Amendment Foundation.
“The funny thing is I never set out to be a Second Amendment advocate,” Remer explained.
He said that while promoting his children’s gun safety book Safety On, he met Alan Gottlieb at the USCCA Expo in Dallas, Texas. Gottlieb not only endorsed the book but also asked Remer to speak at that year’s Gun Rights Policy Conference.
Despite an aversion to speaking publicly, he agreed.
“I was thinking to myself, the Gun Rights Policy Conference, how big could that be,” he recalled.
He found out that speaking to a Sunday crowd would mean speaking in front of 300 to 400 people.
From that speaking engagement, Remer’s advocacy began to snowball.
“Here I was not just an author of children’s books on gun safety, I was now speaking on behalf of the Jewish gun owners of America on gun rights,” Remer said.
Several gun-rights advocates took him under their wing and he now considers himself a full-fledged Second Amendment advocate.
Remer also discussed his work on children’s’ books.
“My first gun was a Glock 19, Even though I was married with two kids and not living in my parent’s house,” he said, “I hid it from my parents that I owned a gun because I didn’t want their hounding ‘Jewish guilt’ over my head. One night my younger brother let it slip that I owned a gun and my parents went full-on Chernobyl nuclear meltdown.”
That brought him to the conclusion that he needed to educate his children about firearms.
He started to research the best way to educate children about firearms and came across the Eddie Eagle program from the NRA.
“As I was going through the Eddie Eagle program myself it dawned on me that this is great, but there is so much more to gun safety,” he said.
Remer then went to Amazon and searched for children’s books on gun safety and couldn’t find any.
“I sat down one day on my notepad on my cell phone and I wrote the book in about 15 to 20 minutes,” Remer recalled.
Five years after that initial writing he was finally able to get that first book published.
The “Daily Bullet” is a weekday video series that focuses on the people who are making a difference in the forearms community. It can be found at the Second Amendment Foundation’s Facebook page and YouTube channel.
