“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

Pikuach Nefesh

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 25, 2017

Whether this attack turns out to be a hate crime or not, it shows above all that citizens must be able to defend themselves. Police and security services are vital. But no one can expect to be saved in that one second that an attack occurs. It is up to each person to take responsibility for their own safety.

Detectives seek homeless man in beating of 74-year-old rabbi

Detectives are searching for a homeless man who they said punched and kicked a 74-year-old rabbi several times Monday as he walked along a residential street in the Fairfax District.

The random attack occurred about 8:30 a.m. in the 100 block of Formosa Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Police said they don’t believe the assault was a hate crime.

Surveillance video footage of the attack showed the rabbi walking in the neighborhood when he was suddenly pushed by another man.

The man then punched the rabbi repeatedly and kicked him until he fell.

Police are looking for this man who they say attacked a rabbi in the Fairfax District. (Los Angeles Police Department)

Witnesses told KTLA-TV that the victim was a rabbi in the community, and had been walking home from a synagogue.

Alison Mayersohn, associate director for the Anti-Defamation League in Los Angeles, said the organization has been in contact with police.

“ADL was shocked by the images, caught on this very disturbing tape, of an elderly, identifiably Jewish man being the victim of a brutal assault,” she said.

Anyone with information about the suspect is urged to call detectives at (213) 922-8260.

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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.)