“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."

Month: January 2019

Second Amendment

High school students help write aggressive Oregon gun control bill

by Jews Can Shoot on January 20, 2019

High school students have helped author an Oregon bill that would limit magazines capacities and even put a cap on the number of rounds a citizen can buy within a 30-day period, reported Fox 12. Hunters and target shooters are just some of the law-abiding gun owners that feel their Second Amendment rights are being infringed

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AG Nominee William Barr on Second Amendment During Confirmation Hearings

by Jews Can Shoot on January 19, 2019

Thoughtful article on Barr’s responses regarding the Second Amendment at the confirmation hearing. On January 15, just a little before 5 p.m. Senator John Cornyn asked Attorney General nominee William P. Barr about his views on the Second Amendment. The question and answer were recorded as part of C-SPAN coverage of the nomination process. The

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Senators Introduce Assault Weapons Ban

by Jews Can Shoot on January 19, 2019

Democrats are hellbent on disarming law-abiding citizens. At this point in time, they have the House. God help us if they ever take the White House and Senate, too. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today led a group of senators in introducing the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019, an

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Paul Pate apologizes to Iowa Firearms Coalition for constitutional amendment mistake

by Jews Can Shoot on January 19, 2019

“The error set the gun rights amendment back years.” I fail to understand how this happened. An entire staff of professionals who do this for a living on an issue of such importance. Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate recorded a video apologizing to members of the Iowa Firearms Coalition for his office’s failure to

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Gunning for the Second Amendment: The debate over gun laws in America

by Jews Can Shoot on January 18, 2019

Before I started Jews Can Shoot (https://jewscanshoot.com/), I founded Children Of Jewish Holocaust Survivors (because having learned from history, I know how it starts and I know how it ends…). I hosted this discussion on the Second Amendment and attempts to control gun ownership with Eugene Volokh and Adam Winkler.

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William Barr’s Connection to Ruby Ridge, Defending FBI Snipers

by Jews Can Shoot on January 18, 2019

‘When the Justice Department won an initial appeals court victory in the case in 2000, federal judge Alex Kozinski warned in a dissent of a new James Bond “007 standard for the use of deadly force” against American citizens. The same court reversed that decision the following year. Kozinski, writing for the majority, declared: “A

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What Does Judaism Say About Gun Control?

by Jews Can Shoot on January 18, 2019

Commenter: “G-d delivered the children of Israel from Egypt. But they came out armed. B’shalach 13-18. I suppose Hashem knows a free people are armed and slaves wait for the good will of their masters. If a citizen is restricted access to a certain type or style of firearm, so should the civilian police agencies.

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BORDERS AND GUNS ARE BOTH ABOUT DEFENSE

by Jews Can Shoot on January 18, 2019

Borders and guns are both about defense (national defense and self-defense) — so, naturally, the Democrats are opposed to both. They’re allowing thousands of criminal aliens to stream across the border, while they scheme to take away our only means of self-defense. Even the rhetoric is similar. Democrats think gun-ownership is immoral (you might

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Amanda Chase, Va. state lawmaker, open carries on Senate floor: ‘It empowers women’

by Jews Can Shoot on January 18, 2019

State Sen. Amanda Chase, R-Chesterfield, wears a sidearm as she presented SJR 275, her resolution reaffirming equal protection under the law, to the Senate Privileges and Elections committee at the State Capitol in Richmond, Va Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. The … more > By Jessica Chasmar – The Washington Times – Thursday, January 17, 2019

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Washington Lt. Gov. Skips Governor’s Speech Because People with Concealed Carry Permits Could Attend

by Jews Can Shoot on January 18, 2019

The Everett Daily Herald (Jerry Cornfield) reports (see also this AP story): Lt. Gov. Cyrus Habib did not preside at the governor’s address to a joint session of the Legislature on Tuesday because he felt vulnerable in the House chamber, where people can carry concealed weapons in the public galleries. “There is no specific threat

"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.)