“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."

Day: June 2, 2016

Commentary

Murder-Suicide at UCLA

by Jews Can Shoot on June 2, 2016

Police are searching for a gunman on the UCLA campus who allegedly shot two victims Wednesday morning. BruinAlert: Shooting at Engineering 4. Go to secure location and deny entry (lockdown) now! — UCLA Bruin Alert (@UCLABruinAlert) June 1, 2016 Fox News’ Jonathan Hunt confirmed that there are “two victims,” but there is no confirmation of

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GOP Assemblywoman: A ‘Loaded Glock’ Beats ‘911 on the Phone’

by Jews Can Shoot on June 2, 2016

During a May 31 press conference on the Second Amendment, California Assemblywoman Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) recoiled from Democrats’ latest gun control efforts, saying a “loaded Glock” beats having “911 on the phone.” Grove made her comments as a part of the Second Amendment Freedom Rally held on the steps of the California state capitol in Sacramento.

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NYT Opinion: Register Every Gun, Fingerprint Every Gun Owner

by Jews Can Shoot on June 2, 2016

On May 31, the New York Times ran an opinion column which suggested that now is the time to register every gun and fingerprint and photograph every gun owner. The author of the column — Alan Berlow — cited the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) as precedent for such sweeping controls and suggested the

"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.)