“We can either live in a paranoid politically correct world frantically trying not to offend the Hitlers and Mohammeds, and blaming their victims when they kill, or we can be free men and women who have chosen to take the power to defend our rights into our own hands.

While a thousand organizations use the Holocaust as a platform for speeches about tolerance, Children Of Jewish Holocaust Survivors [Jews Can Shoot] is conducting firearms training… Freedom is not defended with empty idealism easily perverted into appeasement of evil, but with the force of arms.”

All too many of the other great tragedies of history - Stalin's atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few - were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece... If a few hundred Jewish fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars.

Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Silveira v. Lockyer, 2003

Habah l'hargecha hashkem l'hargo -- "If someone is coming to kill you, rise against him and kill him first."

Month: March 2015

Press

Buying a Gun Not a Shot in the Dark with Jews Can Shoot and Martin B. Retting

by Doris Wise Montrose on March 14, 2015

Last Tuesday, March 10th, Jews Can Shoot hosted a unique event at Martin B. Retting Inc. gun shop in Culver City. Beginning at 5 p.m., approximately 40 people – not all Jewish – arrived for a fun, educational, easy experience shopping for their first firearm. The knowledgeable, friendly, and experienced Martin B. Retting staff

Past Events/Uncategorized

Introductory Handgun Training – Sunday, March 15, 2015

by Doris Wise Montrose on March 5, 2015

Introduction to Handguns This Introduction to Handguns Training class is especially designed for new shooters and will teach the basic knowledge, skills and attitude necessary for owning and using a handgun safely. You will be introduced to the fun and challenge of shooting using the best guns and calibers for new shooters to

"All too many of the other great tragedies of history—Stalin’s atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few—were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided or mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece, as the Militia Act required here. ... If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars." — Silveira v Lockyer, (9th Cir. 2003) (Kozinski, J. dissenting.)