“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."

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Best .45 ACP Concealed Carry Pistols

by Jews Can Shoot on May 5, 2019

To stay alive, a .45.

Note: This is one post on “the best .45 caliber concealed carry pistols.” Internet search will provide many, many more.

Want to start a regular brawl on social media? Jump onto a Facebook gun group and proclaim, “A 1911 in .45 ACP is a heck of a lot better for self-defense than any lousy Tupperware 9mm!”

Or vice versa. “The 9MMs are the best pistols ever—get a clue 1911 Dinosaurs!” And within 18 seconds, the verbal punching will begin as the 1911 “Fudds” duke it out with the 9mm “Whiz Kids.”

It’s lots of sound and fury that doesn’t signify much, because actually, both calibers work fine for those of us who practice concealed carry. Both calibers, and the handguns in which they are chambered, can and will protect us in case of an emergency. And both calibers and handguns have their plusses and minuses, relative to each other that are simply inherent in the way they are designed.

Take the case of the .45 ACP for example.

Developed over a century ago by John Browning, the .45 Automatic Colt Pistol (ACP) was made to work in a semi-automatic pistol Browning had designed for a U.S. Army handgun competition. The cartridge was built around a large bullet (230-grains, or just over 0.5 oz.) that left the muzzle at a relatively slow 830 feet-per-second.

The pistol and cartridge were accepted by the Army in 1911 and the pistol was dubbed the Colt M1911. For a good 100 years, the term .45-caliber pistol” and “1911” were pretty much interchangeable.

by Brian McCombie

Why I always bring my Glock to Shabbat

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"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.)