“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."

Month: August 2016

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Give the Good Guys Guns

by Jews Can Shoot on August 5, 2016

On Monday night this week, Daniel Haiken, a young resident of Nesher, was murdered. Haiken delivered pizzas for a local shop. On Monday night, he returned from a delivery straight into an armed robbery in the pizzeria. The robbers shot him, grabbed the money and escaped. Apparently, nobody – not the pizzeria owner, not Daniel,

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Don’t Look At Your Gun While Reloading!

by Jews Can Shoot on August 5, 2016

Although this article is titled “Don’t Look at Your Gun While Reloading!” it is also meant to cover the reasons you shouldn’t look at your gun while working on it, period. This includes loading, unloading, and clearing malfunctions. Though this is a highly debated and emotional topic on social media and the interwebz, most progressive

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Obama Commutes Sentences Of 55 More Firearms Offenders

by Jews Can Shoot on August 5, 2016

Yesterday, President Obama commuted the sentences of 214 people serving federal prison sentences. Obama has now granted a total of 562 commutations — a number that the White House says is more than the previous nine presidents combined. Many of those whose sentences Obama previously commuted were convicted of firearm-related offenses. Earlier this year, Sen.

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BACK TO SCHOOL: Gun Zone Signs in Texas That Will Actually Reach Criminals

by Jews Can Shoot on August 5, 2016

The community of Claude, TX definitely has an idea of how to effectively deter potential shooters from their schools using signs. Following the school board decision to allow conceal carry on campus, all school buildings in the district have been adorned with signs bearing a bold red statement that says: “ATTENTION: PLEASE BE AWARE THAT

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The Warsaw Uprising, Lest We Forget

by Jews Can Shoot on August 3, 2016

Every year, on August the 1st, the whole of Warsaw comes to a standstill at the W-Hour, 5pm, the start of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. Pedestrians stop, streets turn into carparks. Seventy-two years ago, for almost two months, the Polish underground, chiefly Armia Krajowa or Home Army, fought the hopeless fight against the overwhelmingly

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Company offers ‘Get a Roof, Get a Gun’ promotion

by Jews Can Shoot on August 3, 2016

DENVER — The roofing business in Colorado can be competitive. An estimated 2,000 companies swarm into the state on average to knock on doors of customers impacted by hailstorms. In the industry it can be tough to stand out. WeatherProof Roofing is no longer having that problem. On Saturday, James Webb announced a “Get a Roof,

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Maine Restaurant Owner Refuses Service to Anyone Who Owns an AR-15

by Jews Can Shoot on August 3, 2016

Anne Verrill, owner of Grace restaurant in Maine, is refusing service to anyone who owns an AR-15 or even supports the idea of owning one. According to The New York Times (NYT), Verrill used a Facebook post to alert customers and would-be customers that “anyone who owned a high-powered semiautomatic rifle similar to the one used

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D.C. stun gun ban being challenged on Second Amendment grounds

by Jews Can Shoot on August 3, 2016

Wright v. D.C., just filed today, is a Second Amendment challenge to D.C.’s stun gun ban; the case is being litigated by lawyer George Lyon, who was one of the original plaintiffs in the Heller handgun case. Here is a summary of why the named plaintiffs want to have Tasers; I think it’s a very

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Girl Without a Gun: Pacifist Stalked, Reality Intrudes

by Jews Can Shoot on August 3, 2016

I am republishing this true life story from 2007 for the same reason I republished Jew Without a Gun, my nightmarish report of being trapped with my family, unarmed and defenseless, in the 1992 L.A. Riots. This is another cautionary tale—not about the riots—but about one frightened and helpless young woman who was being stalked

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Oneg Shabbat: Emanuel Ringelblum’s Underground Archive in the Warsaw Ghetto

by Jews Can Shoot on August 3, 2016

Documentary film that makes use of archival films, photographs, works of art, and diaries. The film describes the activity of the underground archive of the Warsaw Ghetto that was created out of a sense of tremendous urgency and at the risk of human life; it also tells the story of Emmanuel Ringelblum who was 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.)