“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: November 2017

Commentary

Sowell’s Visions

by Jews Can Shoot on November 12, 2017

Why do beliefs cluster the way they do? If someone believes that only police and military should have guns, why is that person also likely to support socialized healthcare and a government-imposed minimum wage, and be unsupportive of school vouchers? In his 1987 book A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, economist Thomas Sowell

Commentary

USAF ‘Mishandled’ Reporting Texas Church Shooter’s Conviction to Background Check System, Says Report

by Jews Can Shoot on November 12, 2017

The gunman who opened fire in the Texas church was able to pass a background check because the Air Force “mishandled” the process for reporting his domestic violence conviction, according to a report. On November 6 Breitbart News reported that the gunman, Devin Kelley, passed a background check in 2016 to acquire his rifle. CNN quoted a law enforcement

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Why I Had a 1911 on My Hip

by Jews Can Shoot on November 12, 2017

The last time I attended a holiday at a synagogue, the new rabbi (fresh from New York City) asked why I had a 1911 on my hip. “Because it’s my dress gun and I am wearing it out of respect for the occasion.” At that point, several of the men present shifted their jackets to show

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The Point of Being Armed

by Jews Can Shoot on November 12, 2017

Many people are posting that they carry concealed in their places of worship. (If you can carry, you should be carrying everywhere.) But it strikes me that it would be even better if those places of worship made it known that worshipers may be armed. Then you may never have to draw. And that’s the

Commentary/Second Amendment

The State of Concealed and Open Carry in Churches

by Jews Can Shoot on November 10, 2017

According to concealedcarry.com, there are two states that ban concealed carry in churches, Nebraska and Louisiana. Nebraska allows a church to authorize an armed security team if the team members have carry permits and if written notice is given to church members. Louisiana law is similar but requires an extra eight hours of training every year. Seven states and D.C.

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Truth

by Jews Can Shoot on November 10, 2017

by Marc Berger via Facebook

Commentary

Witness: Good Guy with Gun ‘Took Cover Behind a Car,’ Shot, and Ended Texas Church Attack

by Jews Can Shoot on November 10, 2017

On November 5, a witness to the deadly Texas church shootingrecounted how his neighbor grabbed a rifle, took “cover behind a car,” then shot at the gunman and ended the attack. The witness, Kevin Jordan, was changing the oil in his vehicle when heard the attacker open fire on the church. He said he looked at

Useful Tips

COMPREHENSIVE SELF-DEFENSE, PART 1: KNOW THY ENEMY AND THYSELF

by Jews Can Shoot on November 10, 2017

Whether you are just starting your self-defense journey or have taken your protection seriously for some time, this series of articles is intended to provide you with a comprehensive overview of the areas you should be paying attention to. While this series is certainly going to be more valuable to the newcomer, I believe all

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An armed society is a polite society

by Jews Can Shoot on November 10, 2017

“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”. — From Robert Heinlein’s Beyond This Horizon (1942). Via Paul Blair and Cathy Barry Willinger on Facebook.

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Legislatures need to deregulate concealed carry

by Jews Can Shoot on November 10, 2017

by Bryan L. Berson via Facebook

"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.)