“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

Leading rabbis: Shoot terrorists on sight

by Jews Can Shoot on May 15, 2016

Dozens of leading rabbis on Sunday evening took part in a special “Emergency Conference for the Security of the Nation of Israel in the Holy Land,” where they spoke about the scourge of the current Arab terror wave that has claimed 34 victims’ lives since last September.

The conference was held at the Bostoner Rebbe’s Torah study center in Jerusalem’s northwestern Har Nof neighborhood, and Arutz Sheva was on hand for exclusive coverage of the event.

Those taking part included the Bostoner Rebbe Rabbi Levi Yitzhak Horowitz, Tzfat (Safed) Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Bnei Brak Chief Rabbi Moshe Landau, Temple Institute head Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, American-born Har Nof Rabbi and Torah lecturer Rabbi Sholom Gold and many others.

“The only way to uproot the Arab murderers’ wave of terror in the Holy Land is by the Israeli government standing firm that there will never be negotiations on territories of the Holy Land, (and giving) an expression of remorse over the previous withdrawals and ‘the wretched declaration’ of two states for two peoples,” wrote the rabbis in a summary after the conference.

by Hezki Baruch

Gun Violence Restraining Orders, Unrestrained

9th Circuit opinion on rights of gun stores applies standard, rigorous Second Amendment doctrines

"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.)