“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."

Month: October 2017

Commentary

Czech Republic Parliament Passes Constitutional Right to Bear Arms

by Jews Can Shoot on October 21, 2017

FTA: Similar to the U.S. second amendment to the Constitution, which gives Americans the right to keep and bear arms, the Czech legislation reads: “Citizens of the Czech Republic have the right to acquire, retain and bear arms and ammunition.” The amendment also notes that the right is there to ensure the safety of the

Commentary

Grandmother tells kidnapper ‘If you come near me, I’m going to shoot you’

by Jews Can Shoot on October 21, 2017

Diane McIntire is one of ~6,850 law abiding citizens who used “The Great Equalizer” to save a life last Sunday. Every day ~6,850 law abiding citizens will do the same, most without a single shot fired. In her case, the criminal told her he had just “got out” and that he did prison time and

Commentary/Second Amendment

Six Million Against Gun Control

by Jews Can Shoot on October 20, 2017

In Silveira v. Lockyer, the United States Court of Appeals decided that the Second Amendment did not protect the right to bear arms. “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

Commentary/Press

There is No Virtue in Being Unprepared – Shooting Illustrated

by Doris Wise Montrose on October 18, 2017

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Commentary

ISRAEL EASES GUN LAWS IN BID TO COPE WITH PALESTINIAN ‘LONE WOLF’ ATTACKS

by Jews Can Shoot on October 16, 2017

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan on Wednesday approved a number of measures to ease the requirements for firearm permits, as Israel copes with a wave of “lone wolf” terrorism. “In recent weeks many citizens have helped the Israel Police subdue terrorists who carried out attacks,” he said. “Citizens with firearms training are a multiplying force

Facebook Friends Speak/Second Amendment

When it comes to “gun control,” the important word is “control,” not “gun.”

by Jews Can Shoot on October 16, 2017

There are 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, and this number is not disputed. U.S. population 324,059,091 as of Wednesday, June 22, 2016. Do themath: 0.000000925% of the population dies from gun related actions each year. Statistically speaking, this is insignificant! What is never told, however, is a breakdown of those 30,000 deaths,

Commentary/Facebook Friends Speak

In Response to “The Second Amendment Does NOT Exist in a Vacuum”

by Jews Can Shoot on October 16, 2017

I wrote this response to an opinion article in the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles: The Second Amendment Does NOT Exist in a Vacuum, by Karen Kaskey. Ms. Kaskey displays her ignorance of American history and Jewish history in America. Her out-of-sequence argument regarding the Second Amendment could most charitably be described as an attorney’s

Commentary/Second Amendment

Gov. Brown signs new bill banning all guns on school campuses

by Jews Can Shoot on October 16, 2017

Governor Jerry Brown signed a new bill Saturday banning all guns on school campuses, even those allowed by school superintendents. That now reverses a Kingsburg Joint Union High School District board policy that was passed back in April. During that school board meeting, board members granted Superintendent Randy Morris the ability to select five employees

Commentary

Weapons in Civilian Hands Save Lives

by Jews Can Shoot on October 16, 2017

Very well stated article on the importance of armed civilians in Israel. Very interesting that it was published in Haaretz. The Haaretz editorial on Friday (“Arming civilians is no solution,” Oct. 9) is rife with errors about basic values, tendentious and inaccurate. The right of a person to defend himself from harm is an undisputed

Commentary

Angered by gun control, this lawmaker drafted a bill to require licenses for journalists

by Jews Can Shoot on October 16, 2017

“If we’re okay with someone getting a license to exercise their Second Amendment right, explain to me how that can’t be applied to other constitutional rights?” Oh, the irony. Thanks to Coop LoPresto for this link. A state lawmaker in Indiana has drafted a measure to require licenses for journalists akin to those that pertain

"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.)