“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."

Day: January 11, 2019

Commentary

CCW shooting in Chicago

by Jews Can Shoot on January 11, 2019

“If this woman was carrying concealed and was waiting to take the bus, she was in violation of 430 ILCS 66/65. In fact, just standing under a bus stop in Chicago with a concealed firearm is a violation of 430 ILCS 66/65. “This has been a problem as muggers know that people on train platforms

Second Amendment

Feinstein Introduces 2019 Assault Weapons Ban

by Jews Can Shoot on January 11, 2019

The entire point of any kind of restrictions or bans is to disarm law-abiding citizens. That’s it. Nothing else. Sen. Diane Feinstein is back at it again. The notoriously anti-Second Amendment senator has introduced the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019, which would outlaw 205 “military-style assault weapons by name” along with any magazine that holds

Commentary

Textual analysis of HR8, bill to “To require a background check for every firearm sale”

by Jews Can Shoot on January 11, 2019

This week, U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) introduced HR8. According to the title, the bill is “To require a background check for every firearm sale.” The bill does that–and a great deal more. Summary HR8 requires that loans, gifts, and sales of firearms be processed by a gun store. The same fees, paperwork, and permanent

"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.)