“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/Press

Jews Reject Gavin Newsom’s Disarmament Plan by Doris Wise Montrose

by Jews Can Shoot on June 10, 2016

It has been nearly six months since Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik brought international terrorism to California. The horror in San Bernardino irrevocably changed our perspective on the threat we face from ISIS-inspired attacks in our communities. We have demanded action from public officials and they have responded at the local, state and federal level.

But amidst the many good ideas for stopping terrorism, Gavin Newsom has offered California a sneaky attempt at disarming law-abiding citizens. His ballot proposition is the worst kind of response we can offer to these threats. Under the guise of regulating ammunition and preventing terrorism, Newsom’s initiative is little more than a backdoor, authoritarian plan for disarmament of minorities, something that California’s 1.2 million Jews know all too well.

by Doris Wise Montrose

Shooting in Tel Aviv Bar

Ninth Circuit Seeks to Alienate an ‘Unalienable’ Right

"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.)