“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

Why was Joshua Tree hiker carrying a gun?

by Jews Can Shoot on November 5, 2017

Am I the only person who doesn’t understand why a guy hiking with his friend in Joshua Tree National Park felt the need to carry a gun and bullets?

Yes, there’s much weirdness about what authorities now call a murder-suicide after finding the bodies last month of a young couple who disappeared in the middle of summer.

Yet one of the strangest things is that a congressional bill regulating credit cards made it possible for the alleged shooter, 21-year-old Joseph Orbeso, to legally carry a weapon in a national park.

That’s right. Credit card legislation reversed a national parks firearms policy set by President Ronald Reagan.

From the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee to majestic Denali National Park in Alaska to Joshua Tree itself, I’ve visited dozens of U.S. National Park sites hundreds of times.

I’ve been lost. I’ve nearly frozen or fallen to my death. I’ve seen potentially dangerous four-legged animals and questionable two-legged ones. I’ve traveled alone and partnered with men and women.

by David Whiting

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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.)