“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."

Day: May 15, 2017

Commentary

Progressives openly signaling the arrival of political violence as a tactic to obtain power

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 15, 2017

by Thomas Lifson The message is being sent out loud and clear: the American left is moving toward violence as a tactic in its quest to grab the political power to which it believes it is entitled. John Daniel Davidson is absolutely correct in his observation that the “The American Left is talking itself into Violence.”

Commentary/Facebook Friends Speak

Will we be compliant all the way to confiscation?

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 15, 2017

What’s really amazing is how “compliant” California gun owners are with each and every insane infringement on our Second Amendment rights. So I’m guessing that when – not if – the tyrants that make up the California legislature tell us to give up our guns, we are just going to comply with that too. Because

Commentary/Second Amendment

Keep Your Gun and Live

by Jews Can Shoot on May 15, 2017

By Dan Gifford Given the number of times governments have mass murdered their own people in parts of the world most Americans have never heard of, that subject line admonition of my attached “Firing Line” magazine article is something immigrants often understand better than native born Americans. Perhaps that was the motivation behind Fabio Lanzoni’s

"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.)