“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

Paul Muschick: It’s time for Pittsburgh — and Pennsylvania — to ban assault weapons

by Jews Can Shoot on December 15, 2018

Unarmed defenseless people in a synagogue were murdered so the answer is to make not only the entire state but the entire country unarmed and defenseless.

(This comment is sarcasm.)

A plan to restrict gun ownership in Pittsburgh should heat up the statewide debate in Pennsylvania about reforming firearms laws.

Two months after 11 people were gunned down in a synagogue there, Pittsburgh officials on Friday proposed a ban on assault weapons, large-capacity magazines and modifications such as bump stocks that increase firing rates.

They also want to require people who are dangerous to turn in their guns.

It’s not just Pittsburgh that should be taking those steps. Those should be the laws everywhere. It’s time. Let’s do it.

Those rules wouldn’t prevent all mass shootings, but they could make them harder to commit, and minimize the damage.

Pittsburgh knows it is picking a fight. If the legislation passes, it surely will be challenged in court on the grounds that municipalities cannot pass gun laws that are more restrictive than state laws.

by Paul Muschick

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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.)