“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

Peruta Concealed Carry Lawsuit has Waited 2,768 Days – Supreme Court says Wait Longer

by Jews Can Shoot on May 27, 2017

On October 23, 2009, Ed Peruta filed his lawsuit seeking a concealed carry permit from San Diego Sheriff Gore. That was 2,768 days ago and Mr. Peruta is still waiting for a final resolution of his lawsuit. His cert petition was rescheduled for this Thursday. The results of this Thursday’s conference of justices will be released on Tuesday morning, May 30^th.

Statistically speaking, the probability of the US Supreme Court deciding to hear Mr. Peruta’s appeal will drop to 6.6% if his cert petition is not granted in the next conference. This is still better than the 1 in 100 chance he had when his cert petition asking the Supreme Court to review his case was first filed but playing Russian Roulette has better odds of success.

Recognizing that cert petitions are not ball bearings and might not be amenable to the same statistical analysis as mass produced objects, the success or failure of a cert petition is often dependent upon arcane rules, procedures and (to be honest) personal whims of the justices.

One thing we know for certain is that it takes the vote of four justices to grant a cert petition and after having been considered in three private conferences by the justices, there have not been four justices who have voted to grant Mr. Peruta’s petition.

by Charles Nichols

Arizona Gun-Rights, Gun-Control Groups Agree: Governor Ducey Killed Gun Bills

Daniel Webster

"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.)