“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

To Arm or Not to Arm

by Jews Can Shoot on December 4, 2015

My husband has become exceptionally popular in his shul over the past few weeks. It could be his scintillating personality, his kindness and good deeds, his generosity and benevolence – or maybe, just maybe…it’s his gun.

Many people here in Israel carry licensed guns. Our son applied for one as soon as he finished his six-year Hesder (combined army and yeshiva) service in the paratroopers. He went on to study at Ariel College in Shomron and knew he would be traveling regularly through and past many Arab towns and villages so he decided to get a gun license (his recent army service ensured he would have no problem).

He carries that gun wherever he goes, seven days a week including Shabbos, in war and peace, through intifadas and quiet times. In fact someone asked him if he was ever without it and he replied, “Only under the chuppah on my wedding day.” And indeed, on that occasion he gave it to a friend with strict instructions to wear it and not leave it lying around the house.

by Ann Goldberg

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA): ‘Sensible Gun Laws Work, We’ve Proven It In California’

Democratic Rep. Sanchez Decries ‘Multiautomatic Round Weapons’

"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.)