“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

Trump pulls out of U.N. Arms Treaty at NRA Convention

by Jews Can Shoot on April 27, 2019

Trump announced that he was pulling the US out of the United Nations Arms Treaty.

“The United Nations will soon receive a formal notice that America is rejecting this treaty,” Trump said at the NRA convention on Friday. “Under my administration, we will never surrender our American sovereignty to anyone.”

INDIANAPOLIS — President Donald Trump gave the National Rifle Association something they had long wanted on Friday when he announced that he was pulling out of the United Nations Arms Treaty.

“The United Nations will soon receive a formal notice that America is rejecting this treaty,” Trump said at the NRA convention on Friday. “Under my administration, we will never surrender our American sovereignty to anyone.”

Trump signed the resolution which regulates the $70 billion business in conventional arms and seeks to keep weapons out of the hands of human rights abusers. He tossed the pen he used to sign it into the audience.

It wasn’t challenging to find NRA members who appreciate and ultimately support the president’s decision. The NRA has said the treaty undermines domestic gun rights in the past.

“It was the smartest thing he’s done today. It was a bad deal to begin with,” Chris Kelly, an NRA conventioneer, said. “It doesn’t do anything good for America. It just took rights away from Americans.”

by Derrik Thomas

LaPierre Refuses to Step Down After NRA Board Members Ask for His Resignation - The Truth About Guns

There is something rotten in Indianapolis.

"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.)