“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."

Second Amendment

Ninth Circuit To Hear Challenge To Washington’s Background Check Law

by Jews Can Shoot on October 6, 2017

A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear a challenge Monday to Washington’s voter-approved background check law for person-to-person gun transfers.

The lawsuit challenges provisions of Initiative 594 which voters overwhelmingly passed in 2014. Specifically, the plaintiffs argue that the background check requirement fails to exempt certain temporary, non-commercial gun transfers that could put law-abiding gun owners at risk of prosecution.

Plaintiffs’ attorney David Edwards offered the example of an unmarried couple who share a pistol.

“They have a single firearm that they keep in their home for self-defense and the concern is that the statute essentially says that they cannot both use that firearm,” Edwards said.

Other scenarios raised by the lawsuit include a person who checks their gun as baggage before flying to Seattle and then retrieves the gun from an airline employee upon arrival, or someone who wants to borrow a gun while visiting from out of state.

In addition to the individuals, the plaintiffs include the Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation.

by Austin Jenkins

Places You Can’t Carry

Violence: We’re Asking the Wrong Questions

"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.)