“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."

Useful Tips

Five More Ways to Improve Your Defensive Shooting

by Jews Can Shoot on October 6, 2017

A 2013 gallop poll revealed that 60% of people who purchase a firearm do so for defensive or “personal safety” reasons. When these gun owners search the internet, they don’t have to go far to find some great instruction on how to get started in the defensive pistol crafts. There are hundreds of excellent articles written on how to choose a defensive handgun, find quality gear, conduct dry fire practice, find training, and avoid pitfalls.

Yet, a simple trip to the range reveals that a lot of us shooters are still struggling with unique challenges when it comes to their shooting.

There are different things shooters can do to improve their skills, and there are different types of shooting to seek proficiency in. If you are seeking ways to improve your bulls-eye game, then this isn’t the article for you. Defensive shooting balances speed, accuracy, and efficiency in accessing a firearm, running it well, and getting it working again quickly if it should fail.

Perhaps you’ve already attended a pistol class, are practicing regularly, and, yet, are still struggling to improve. Here is one big thing, and four small things, that may help you improve.

by Melody Lauer

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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.)