“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."

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California ballot initiative aims to make it harder to acquire ammunition

by Jews Can Shoot on December 4, 2015

A man chooses a gun with his son at the Gun Gallery in Glendale, California. Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images

In the shadow of the San Bernardino massacre where two assailants armed with more than 1,600 rounds of bullets killed 14 people and wounded 21, California advocates have a plan brewing to regulate the sale of ammunition.

Gun control advocates led by California lieutenant governor Gavin Newsom recently introduced a ballot initiative that would ban possession of high-capacity magazines, and govern ammunition sales in the state similar to the way gun sales are currently handled by requiring background checks and permits for purchase.

“Currently if I want to buy cold medicine, I have to go to the store and show my ID,” said Ari Freilich, staff attorney for San Francisco-based Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which helped to write the initiative. “But I can have ammunition shipped to my door as if it was pizza … Ammunition is a deadly instrument and it’s time we treated it as such.”

The notion of addressing gun violence through ammunition limits is not new. Some 20 years ago, New York senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan argued that regulating ammunition was the best means of controlling guns. “Guns don’t kill people; bullets do,” he said as he introduced legislation to tax ammunition in 1993.

by Anita Chabria

Democratic Rep. Sanchez Decries ‘Multiautomatic Round Weapons’

Introductory Handgun Class

"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.)