“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."

Commentary

Watch: Israelis Learning to Shoot Because They’re ‘Front Line’

by Jews Can Shoot on July 10, 2015

Ronen Rabani, manager of unique Jerusalem shooting range, reveals demand to bear arms has spiked since Har Nof massacre.

Arutz Sheva got the chance to take a first-hand look at a unique shooting range in Jerusalem, where Israelis have been flocking to learn how to defend themselves amid a wave of terrorist attacks.

Ronen Rabani, manager of the shooting range Krav, reported having seen a rise in the demand to bear arms since the Har Nof synagogue massacre last November, with civilians eager to arm themselves and be prepared to prevent an attack.

He described the long bureaucratic process required to obtain a handgun, which can take up to six months, noting that one can only apply after serving in the army, or living or working in a place where police recommend having a weapon. People who work in a vocation that requires a weapon, such as a security guard or tour guide, can also apply to carry a gun.

People go through the long process, he said, “because there’s nobody else. Civilians in Israel have the front line of defense of their own families…the enemy is right here.”

He noted that tourists also come to the range, seeking to have the unique experience of shooting Israeli weapons with Israeli instructors.

by Eliran Aharon

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/197925#.VZ8dw_mqqkp

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"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.)