“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

Florida school shooting survivor gives fiery pro-gun rights speech at Denver summit

by Jews Can Shoot on June 12, 2018

Kyle Kashuv is 17 and will be a senior in high school this fall.

Between now and then, he’s actively recruiting other high school students to join him in learning about conservative values and to promote his ideas on gun rights. It’s a position that sets him apart from some of the other students at his high school.

Kashuv was in Denver Friday night to speak at the Western Conservative Summit. He is a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and was at the school Feb. 14 when a 19-year-old former student shot and killed 14 students and three staff members. Kashuv was in a separate building during the shooting, he told Colorado Politics.

But he said he still doesn’t feel safe. “The same exact thing could happen at my school or any other school,” he said.

by Marianne Goodland

What's the difference?

Adam Putnam’s office stopped reviewing concealed weapons background checks for a year because it couldn’t log in

"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.)