“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

Gun Violence is on the Decline. . .Except in Gun Free Zones

by Jews Can Shoot on November 21, 2016

Donald Trump has proposed the end of “gun-free zones” since becoming the President-Elect. Whether or not he keeps that promise is still up in the air. But it would be wonderful if he does work towards that. Gun-free zones only limit law-abiding gun-owners from carrying their firearms, not criminals. Therefore, gun-free zones ultimately put people in danger. According to a study by Pew Research Center, gun homicide rate dropped from 7.0 per 100,000 in 1993 down to 3.4 per 100,000 in 2014. But how many of the remaining gun homicides are done within the premises of a “gun free zone”?

Trump said first day in Office he’d make #GunFreeZones illegal. Which is on the @NRA agenda. A gun in every one of 160,000 US Classrooms. https://t.co/KufwwxpR4K

— Annemarie Weers (@AnnemarieWeers) November 13, 2016

According to FBI statistics, within 2014 and 2015, there were 40 active shooter situations. If you look through all of the locations listed, you will find that every last one of them were places that would be “gun-free” zones. For example, it states 15 of which were businesses that tend to be gun-free, as in supermarkets, offices, malls, etc. As well, 6 listed were schools, either preK-12 or higher education. Only 8 out of the 40 active shooter situations were in either a residence or open area.

by Brittni Kates

Constitution and Second Amendment

The demographics and politics of gun-owning households

"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.)