“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."

Year: 2018

Commentary

What It’s Like to Live in a State Hostile to Gun Owners

by Jews Can Shoot on January 30, 2018

With the election of President Donald Trump, many gun owners breathed a sigh of relief, that we dodged a bullet so to speak of having someone in charge of the executive branch that was in favor of new and stricter gun laws. We blocked someone who could have changed the balance of power within the

Commentary

Las Vegas SHOT Show: Guns, gear and controversy

by Jews Can Shoot on January 30, 2018

UPDATED: The 40th 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

Commentary

Kopel: 14th Amendment gives Congress power to pass concealed carry reciprocity

by Jews Can Shoot on January 29, 2018

The House of Representatives recently passed the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 with bipartisan support. The act would allow people eligible to carry a concealed firearm in their home state to carry in other states, as well. Opponents contend the act violates federalism. Actually, the act is well within congressional powers under the 14th

Commentary

Amarillo Pizza Store Owner: Armed Employees Welcomed Here

by Jews Can Shoot on January 29, 2018

Last week, a legally armed employee of La Bella Pizza shot and killed a robber who was holding another employee at gunpoint. Clayton Jerrell Morgan — who was 36 and will never see his 37th birthday — was challenged by a La Bella worker who has a concealed carry permit and was packing. When Morgan

Facebook Friends Speak

Gun Yoga

by Jews Can Shoot on January 29, 2018

Gun Yoga will blow you away! by The Hambone Group via Facebook

Second Amendment

Gun Rights Amendment to Iowa Constitution Clears First Hurdle

by Jews Can Shoot on January 29, 2018

Advocates for and against gun rights spoke out at the Capitol today on a proposed amendment to the Iowa constitution. The amendment states that Iowans’ rights to acquire, keep, possess, transport, carry, transfer, and use arms for all legitimate purposes shall not be infringed, and that courts should strictly scrutinize any attempt to regulate them.

Commentary

Indiana legislators dump proposed handgun licensing repeal

by Jews Can Shoot on January 29, 2018

Joshua Harrison: “An old document says “shall not infringe” and isn’t limited to merely keeping arms, but specifically includes “bearing” arms. Permits are for privileges, not rights.” A proposal to repeal the state’s handgun licensing law was dumped Wednesday by an Indiana House committee in the face of opposition from several police organizations. The House

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26 New Guns in 2 Minutes

by Jews Can Shoot on January 29, 2018

Commentary

Lone organizer pickets outside big Las Vegas gun trade show

by Jews Can Shoot on January 29, 2018

A Chicago man’s protest of U.S. gun policy failed to draw supporters outside the firearms industry’s biggest annual trade show in Las Vegas. Lee Goodman held a sign listing 11 deadly mass shootings and reading, “If not now, when?” as conventioneers streamed into the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s SHOT Show at the Sands Expo Center.

Commentary

Politico Blames Masculinity For Mass Shootings. Here’s Why That’s Ridiculous

by Jews Can Shoot on January 29, 2018

Politico posted a uniquely poor commentary last week on the real cause of mass shootings. It’s certainly not mental illness. It’s not even access to guns, per se. It’s not people coming to the end of their rope and “going postal.” What is the single motivating factor behind these massacres? Quite simple: men. Here is what journalist Laura

"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.)