“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.”

Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish blog

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: July 2015

Commentary

The Swiss Difference: A Gun Culture That Works

by Jews Can Shoot on July 27, 2015

The country had one mass shooting in 2001, but a resulting anti-gun referendum failed to pass. The Swiss will not give up the gun. Can their system work in the U.S.? “We will never change our attitude about the responsible use of weapons by law-abiding citizens,” says Hermann Suter, vice president of Pro-Tell, the country’s

Commentary

‘Just Give Them What They Want’ Advice Leaves Key Question Unanswered

by Jews Can Shoot on July 27, 2015

With much of the attention focused on “gun-free” military recruiting centers, a recent armed robbery and assault of a clerk in a Chevron station convenience store in Mesquite, Tex., reminds us there are plenty of higher-risk jobs where employees are on their own. This is the fourth robbery at this particularly outlet this year, Fox

Commentary

Background Check System Failed In Lafayette Murders

by Jews Can Shoot on July 27, 2015

John Russell Houser, the “drifter” who murdered two and wounded several more in a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, was crazy as a loon. That isn’t unusual in such cases, but what is unusual is that Houser was involuntarily committed to a mental institution in 2008. That fact should have prevented him from buying the

Commentary

Pastors And Priests Take Concealed Carry Classes To Protect Their Congregations

by Jews Can Shoot on July 26, 2015

FRANKLINTON, LOUISIANA — In what is either a sign of the best of times or the worst of them, a group of pastors and priests from across Louisiana have gathered together to complete the range requirements to get their concealed carry permits. WWL-4 covered the story. “Churches left their doors open all the time so

Commentary/Second Amendment

Charlotte Pastor Welcomes Two New Members: ‘Smith And Wesson’

by Jews Can Shoot on July 26, 2015

Pastor Brenda Stevenson says she does not believe church-goers in Charleston would have been easily killed if they had been armed and she is going to lead by example and arm herself in the pulpit. Stevenson, who is pastor of New Outreach Christian Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, said, “Like I tell everybody – just welcome two new

Commentary/Second Amendment

Obama Tells BBC He’S ‘Most Frustrated’ On Gun Control: ‘I Will Not Stop’

by Jews Can Shoot on July 26, 2015

In advance of his trip to Kenya, President Obama told the BBC that he was determined to get something done on gun control, expressing frustration that he was unable to get movement on an issue he supported. “The one area where I feel that I’ve been most frustrated and most stymied – it is that

Second Amendment

11 Ways You Know You Live In A Country Run By Idiots

by Jews Can Shoot on July 26, 2015

1. If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for being in the country illegally, you live in a country run by idiots. 2. If you have to get your parents’ permission to go on a field trip or take an aspirin in school, but not to get an

Commentary

Another (Former) Bloomberg Mayor Facing Multitude of Charges

by Jews Can Shoot on July 26, 2015

“A statewide investigating grand jury has recommended that criminal charges be filed against former Harrisburg Mayor Stephen R. Reed, the Harrisburg Patriot-News reported. “State Attorney General Kathleen Kane … calls the investigation into Reed one of the ‘most disturbing cases of public corruption this office has investigated.’” “Former mayor of Pa. capital charged with 499 criminal

Commentary

GOP warns: 10,000 prisoners will be released early under Obama this year

by Jews Can Shoot on July 26, 2015

The chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees warned Wednesday that lower federal sentencing guidelines under President Obama are expected to lead to the early release of more than 10,000 federal inmates this year, and possibly tens of thousands of others in the next few years. “This includes inmates with violent criminal histories, who

Past Events/Uncategorized

Ladies’ Day Shoot – Registration

by Jews Can Shoot on July 26, 2015

"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.)