“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

30-years-ago teens kept rifles in their trucks without shooting anyone, Sheriff explains what changed

by Doris Wise Montrose on February 25, 2019

“Knezovich says in all that time, the gun hasn’t changed. We have changed.”

In the wake of yet another school shooting, the second deadliest in United States history, people everywhere are looking for someone or something to blame.

Most gun control advocates blame the AR-15, the tool used by the gunman to kill 17 people. It’s not unusual to hear a public outcry for stricter gun laws following a tragedy, but is access to a firearm the true cause of these recent mass shootings? Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich doesn’t think so.

From the 1765 to February, 2018 there have been 460 incidents of school shootings in the United States of America. In the 1950s there were 17 school shootings, in the 1960s there were 18, in the 1970s there were 30 school shootings and another 39 in the 1980s. In the 1990s there were 63 school shootings. From 2001 to February 14,2018 there have been 207 school shootings. For comparison, there were 227 school shootings in the entire 20th Century.

Ohio lawmakers studying error that could ban some guns

@KurtSchlichter

"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.)