“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

Las Vegas SHOT Show: Guns, gear and controversy

by Jews Can Shoot on January 30, 2018

UPDATED: The 40^th annual Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show opened for a four-day run Tuesday morning in Las Vegas, and almost out of the gate there was a tinge of controversy, thanks to a Kentucky school shooting and an Associated Press story that appeared in several newspapers.

Maybe it was the headline: “Gun industry gathers just a few miles from mass shooting.”

The report lamented, “What exactly will be among the thousands of products crammed into the exhibition spaces at the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s SHOT Show convention, running Tuesday through Friday, will be a bit of a mystery, shielded from the public and, this year, members of the general-interest media.”

For the record, the SHOT Show has never been open to the public in its 40 years, and the “general-interest media,” — which is apparently savvy enough to not call itself the “mainstream press” in this case — knows it. And the “general-interest media” has rarely covered the event.

However, according to NSSF’s Mike Bazinet, the place is full of journalists, an estimated 2,500 of them. These are outdoor media professionals registered for this week’s event, a fact buried 13 paragraphs into the story. During the SHOT Show, at any time during the day it is not unusual to find well over 100 of these journalists in the Press Room, hammering out stories for their readers.

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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.)