“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

Graham Leighton’s answer to Can a pro-gun American justify their nation’s gun laws to a Brit who believes that a gun-less society is safer?

by Jews Can Shoot on February 14, 2018

I’m a Brit with a green card who lives in America – do I qualify to answer this?

In 1992 the Los Angeles riots broke out after four police officers who beat Rodney King to a pulp were acquitted.

People began rioting. The supposedly liberal celebrities and actors demanded the police protect them, and so the police withdrew to these affluent neighbourhoods to protect the rich and the famous.

This left Koreatown in particular at the mercy of the rampaging hordes. It wasn’t that Koreans had done anything in particular to king. They were just honest and hard working people whose livelihoods were now at risk.

by Graham Leighton via Quora.com

Russians Promoted 2nd Amendment so Americans Would Kill Each Other

State Dept. Terry Redactions Show Resistance Rather than Compliance

"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.)