“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

Registration, Confiscation, Arrest

by Jews Can Shoot on October 7, 2016

“Universal background checks…. Effectiveness depends on … gun registration….” So says the National Institute of Justice, part of the Obama Justice Department, in a 2013 study. Criminalizing the transfer of firearms between law-abiding citizens—the only ones who would undergo background checks—has nothing to do with preventing violence, but everything to do with registering gun owners.

The Second Amendment provides that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Incarcerating persons who fail to register to exercise this constitutional right, to say the least, infringes that right.

The European Union mandated that its members impose central electronic registration on all lawful gun owners. (Attention hackers.) Now, in response to recent terrorist attacks, the EU seeks to ban many types of firearms commonly possessed for sport and self-defense. How easy it will be to confiscate the registered firearms.

The terrorists forgot to register their weapons, so they won’t be turning them in.

As fate would have it, in 2013—the 80th anniversary of Hitler coming to power—Germany was the first to comply with the EU’s diktat. Completely forgotten was Germany’s—rather Europe’— rather regretful experience.

by Stephen P. Halbrook

Federal Judge Overturns Ban on Openly Carrying Guns in Public

“But Knowing How to Shoot Will Give Us Hope”

"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.)