“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."

Second Amendment

NINTH CIRCUIT DENIES EN BANC REHEARING IN SILVESTER V. HARRIS

by Jews Can Shoot on April 9, 2017

On Tuesday, April 4th, the Ninth Circuit voted to deny a petition for rehearing and petition for rehearing “en banc” in the case of Silvester v. Harris. The case challenges California’s 10-day waiting period as applied to certain individual gun owners, including those who already own a firearm or have a CCW. In either situation, the purpose of the 10-day waiting period (to provide a so-called “cooling off” period for first time gun buyers) is wholly arbitrary and does nothing more than act as a burden on Second Amendment rights.

In June of 2015, CRPA, along with the support of Gun Owners of California, filed an important amicus brief in support of the Plaintiffs. The brief highlighted how any law that burdens conduct protected by the Second Amendment is not shielded from constitutional review merely because it is a longstanding provision or presumed by the courts to be lawful. What’s more, the brief also argued how California utterly failed to justify its restriction as narrowly drawn to achieve its desired public safety interests, as required under the Constitution.

by crpa.org

Gorsuch Confirmed

Meanwhile, in a Russian High School Class...

"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.)