“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

Murder Up 27.5% in Los Angeles in 2016 — So Far

by Jews Can Shoot on March 10, 2016

On Tuesday, the LAPD acknowledged that murders in the city have soared 27.5% compared to the same period in 2016.

According to the Los Angeles Times, LAPD Asst. Chief Earl Paysinger told police commissioners that the city has suffered from a 12.7% increase in violent crime, with double-digit increases in aggravated assaults and robberies added to the skyrocketing murder rate.

Paysinger tried to mitigate the effect of the bad news by pointing out that property crime has fallen 2%, with a “remarkable” 16.2% plunge in burglaries. Combined with the soaring violent crime rate, overall crime rose less than one percentage point from 2015.

The largest increase in crime occurred in the LAPD’s Central Bureau, 4.5%. The South Bureau rose 3%, while the West L.A. and San Fernando Valley bureaus saw crime decrease.

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck has pointed out that out of one dozen shootings reported a recent weekend, ten were gang-related, and over half of the 48 homicides in the city were also gang-related. Deputy Chief Bill Scott, who supervises the LAPD’s South Bureau, said that Baldwin Hills, Leimert Park and Exposition Park have seen the greatest increase in homicides, with seven people killed, four in gang-related incidents.

by William Bigelow

First Shots: An Introduction to Handguns - Sunday, March 13

Five Degrees to Domination

"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.)