“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

Laws not about to deter criminals

by Jews Can Shoot on June 18, 2017

I’m in complete agreement with Bob J. Taylor’s recent letter (“Gun-violence epidemic a myth,” June 8). Taylor is absolutely correct in stating criminals are, in fact, criminals because they do not obey the laws. They couldn’t care less about more gun-control laws.

As a law-abiding citizen and a gun owner, I have no problem with the current law requiring mandatory background checks for gun purchases. What I do have a problem with is gun-control advocates calling for more “common sense” gun control — when, in fact, what they’re calling for is more “feel good” gun-control laws, which do nothing to prevent criminals from using firearms to carry out their violent acts.

Just ask the citizens of Washington, D.C., or Chicago how their “feel good” gun control laws are working for them.

by Joe Eastburn, Springfield via registerguard.com

Instead of taking away our guns, why not arm law-abiding citizens as protection from an attack?

Bomb threats shut down three L.A. synagogue locations on Shabbat

"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.)