“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.”
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."
“As somebody who actually cares about the right in question [Second Amendment right to bear arms], I would be concerned with the slippery slope; Bump stocks don’t actually allow you to fire any faster than you can manually. Ban them, and the obvious next step is to ban guns that can be fired rapidly manually.
Major American Jewish organizations are calling for stricter gun-control laws in the wake of the Feb. 14 mass school shooting in Parkland, Fla., that left 14 students and three staff members dead. A spokesperson for the women’s organization Hadassah told JNS that the group supports all three of the legislative proposals under discussion in the
The (very polished, very professional) student shooting survivors are co-opting the phrases of the Holocaust. Make no mistake, the Holocaust would not have happened anywhere to the degree that it did if citizens had not been disarmed. The irony should not be lost.