“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: August 31, 2016

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What would you do in an active shooter situation? | Sunday, Sept 18

by Jews Can Shoot on August 31, 2016

Would you know what to do in an active shooter situation? Read an excerpt from the book: Realities of Defense The worst case scenario for defense is one in which all the variables and factors of the encounter are in favor of the assailant or assailants and not you. This means that you are

Commentary

Chicago Gangs No Longer Know or Fear the Police, and Bodies Pile Up

by Jews Can Shoot on August 31, 2016

The dead multiply in Chicago, the fruit of the gang wars ripening in August. With at least 78 killed so far, August is the deadliest month in nearly 20 years, according to a Tribune analysis. It’s all but certain that the city’s homicide total will push beyond the 491 dead of last year. And people

Commentary

What Does “Gun Safety” Have To Do With Violent Crime Reduction?

by Jews Can Shoot on August 31, 2016

They are actually separate subjects with little overlap. NEWS BULLETIN: CRIMINALS DON’T WANT “SAFE” FIREARMS, SINCE THEIR INTENT IS TO KILL OR INJURE. AND YOU CAN BE SURE THAT IF CRIMINALS ACQUIRED A “SMART GUN” THAT WAS “SAFE”, THEY WOULD QUICKLY DISABLE THE SMART SAFETY COMPUTER, OR SIMPLY ACQUIRE A GUN THAT WORKS WITHOUT MODIFICATION,

"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.)