“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/Second Amendment

Gov. Greg Abbott wants Supreme Court to block California gun limits

by Jews Can Shoot on February 18, 2017

Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block California’s limits on concealed carry permit holders in a brief filed with eight other governors.

“The question presented is whether the State of California can single out one group of disfavored citizens–namely, gun owners–and impose unique burdens on their fundamental rights,” the brief reads. “Indeed, no other group of private citizens has to prove–to the satisfaction of a government official vested with unreviewable and boundless discretion–that they really need to exercise their fundamental constitutional freedoms.”

California law prohibits residents from carrying a concealed weapon in public locations and does not allow individuals to get aconcealed carry licenses unless they can establish good cause, prompting a lawsuit from a number of people who were denied licenses.

The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of California last year, writing “there is no Second Amendment right for members of the general public to carry concealed firearms in public.”

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"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.)