“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

Knife-wielding man runs off after victim with concealed carry permit pulls out gun

by Jews Can Shoot on October 16, 2017

Barry Bahrami: “This is a demonstration how “The Great Equalizer” in the hands of law abiding citizens will save lives. It was only three years ago that Illinois began allowing law abiding citizens to carry concealed firearms, and that was only after a legal battle resulted in a federal court order that forced legislators to

Commentary/Second Amendment

New Poll Reflects Lack of Education About Guns After Las Vegas Shooting

by Jews Can Shoot on October 16, 2017

A new poll conducted by NPR/Ipsos, a majority of Americans favor tightening restrictions on firearms, including a ban on “assault-style weapons,” following the mass shooting in Las Vegas that killed fifty-eight (the shooter’s death not included) and wounded hundreds. The support for such a ban runs to ninety-one percent among Democrats, while seven out of ten Republicans

Commentary

House Dems propose bills to stop online ammo sales, ban mags

by Jews Can Shoot on October 16, 2017

House Democrats have introduced a number of new gun control measures in the wake of a deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas. Among the proposals are HR.3962 to ban online ammunition sales, H.R. 4025 requiring gun dealers to report the sale of two or more rifles to the same person in a five-day period, and HR. 4052, which would ban magazines

Second Amendment

IT BEGINS: DEMOCRAT LEADER CALLS FOR GUN CONFISCATION

by Jews Can Shoot on October 16, 2017

Obama flunky and top-ranking Democrat Dan Pfeiffer is tired of listening to Democrats give lip-service to the 2nd Amendment, when he knows that the party leadership actually believes the Amendment should be repealed. Pfeiffer took to the pages of the leftwing Crooked in order to make his case that the Democrats needed to stop pandering to pro-2nd Amendment

Commentary

Gun-Toting Robber Waltzes Into Convenience Store, Clerk Immediately Opens Fire

by Jews Can Shoot on October 14, 2017

A Smoke 4 Less store clerk in Durham, North Carolina got into a shootout with an armed robber, and police just released the video Thursday. It’s pretty incredible. First of all, you gotta give props to this clerk. From my detailed, CSI-level video analysis he was already brandishing his weapon before the masked gunman even

Commentary

The Guardian: Background Check Laws Fail in CO, WA Because Citizens Will Not Comply

by Jews Can Shoot on October 14, 2017

On October 13 the Guardian reported that background check laws in Colorado and Washington state have proven a failure because citizens simply will not comply with them. This means that after millions upon millions spent, political offices lost, and promises of a Utopian world with less gun crime made, the checks have been a bust. According to The

Commentary

Fmr. Obama Senior Adviser Calls for Gun Confiscation ‘Similar to the One Australia Instituted’

by Jews Can Shoot on October 14, 2017

To curtail gun rights of citizens is the goal of the Democratic Party and more than a few in the Republican Party. FTA: ‘”The Democratic gun control strategy fails because it is defined by this poverty of ambition—the determination never to look beyond fear of political repercussions,” he wrote, going on to propose a series

Commentary

Bump-Stock Ban Bill Makes Possession Retroactively Illegal – That Means Confiscation

by Jews Can Shoot on October 14, 2017

There is a bipartisan coalition of Republican and Democratic representatives who are advocating for a bill to ban the possession of bump-stock devices. While the likelihood of the bill passing is still not as likely as any other gun control measure, its presence should not be shrugged off by gun owners, because the bill contains

Second Amendment

PRESS RELEASE: Monumental Mental Health Second Amendment As-Applied Challenge Success

by Jews Can Shoot on October 14, 2017

We are extremely proud to announce that Attorney Joshua Prince was successful in a second Second Amendment as-applied challenge in relation to a prior mental health commitment. As our viewers are likely aware from Attorney Prince’s blog article Monumental Decision from the Middle District Court of Pennsylvania Regarding Mental Health Commitments and the Second Amendment, over a year

Commentary

Legislation Introduced That Would Limit Magazine Capacity in Firearms

by Jews Can Shoot on October 14, 2017

Tomorrow Rep. Dina Titus of Nevada’s First Congressional District joined a group of House lawmakers to introduce the Keep Americans Safe Act, legislation to prohibit the transfer, importation, or possession of magazines able to hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. Titus released the following statement concerning the legislation: Like Rep. Esty, I believe that high-capacity

"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.)