“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

Suicide prevention gun-control bill passes through Oregon Senate

by Jews Can Shoot on May 5, 2017

SALEM, Ore. — Oregonians worried about a loved one committing suicide or hurting someone with a gun should have legal recourse to get firearms out of that person’s hands.

At least that’s the message Oregon senators sent when they voted through a controversial gun-control bill largely along party lines Monday.

Senate Bill 719, cosponsored by Sens. Brian Boquist, R-Dallas, and Ginny Burdick, D-Portland, passed 17-11 through the Senate and will go Tuesday to the House of Representatives for a first reading.

Suicides-by-firearms vastly outnumbered homicides committed with guns in Oregon in 2015, the most recent year whose data are most readily available. That year almost 77 percent of gun deaths in Oregon were suicides, and 19.5 percent were homicides, according to data from the Oregon Violent Death Reporting System.

People who committed suicide with a firearm in Oregon numbered 373 in 2015, compared to the 94 who were murdered with a gun, according to Center for Disease Control and Prevention data.

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by Jonathan Bach

Texas Campus Concealed Carry Student Stops Slaughter at UT Austin

Victory in Big Lake!

"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.)