“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/Second Amendment

Cory Booker wants a ban on ‘assault weapons,’ and yes, it means putting gun owners in jail

by Jews Can Shoot on May 7, 2019

FTA: This is not an argument against the rule of law, but rather a reminder of how seriously lawmaking ought to be taken. Lawmakers must consider what constitutes an offense so egregious to civil society that it’s worth depriving you of liberty and even threatening violence to force you not to do something.

The only answer Booker could truthfully give to Harlow’s question was a resounding yes. If it doesn’t result in jail time, then any law requiring gun owners to surrender their guns would be not a law, but a suggestion.

Presidential hopeful Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., has released one of the most draconian gun control proposals of the primary season, complete not just with the usual “assault weapon” bans but also a requirement that every gun owner obtain a license from the federal government.

CNN’s Poppy Harlow rightly asked Booker whether his proposal would mean gun owners who purchased their “assault weapons” lawfully would face prosecution and prison time if they refused to surrender them.

“The critical thing is, I think most Americans agree, these weapons of war should not be on our streets,” Booker initially responded. Harlow then pushed back against his equivocation only to elicit more equivocation.

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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.)