“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.”

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 28, 2017

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The Time is Now: Train to Survive!

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 28, 2017

It is easy to believe that violence only happens to others. It is easy to dismiss crime statistics when they are just numbers in a report. But notice just how frequently, when watching the news or documentaries about crime, there is a neighbor or family member of a crime victim that cries “this is a

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A Citizens Guide to Active Shooter Incidents: A three-part instructional interactive live webinar

by Jews Can Shoot on May 28, 2017

Please join us for a three-part instructional video webinar Active Killer Incidents: A Civilian Response Model Part 1: June 11 – 7:30 p.m. PDT, 7:30 p.m. MT, 9:30 p.m. CT, 10:30 p.m. ET Part 2: June 19 – 6:30 p.m. PDT, 6:30 p.m. MT, 8:30 p.m. CT, 9:30 p.m. ET Part 3: June 25 – 7:30

"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.)