“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.”

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."

Day: July 1, 2019

Commentary

Rocky Times On Horizon For Gun Owners, Industry

by Jews Can Shoot on July 1, 2019

This week’s resignation of Chris Cox, veteran executive director of the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action, left a lot of people stunned, others not so much, depending upon to whom one listens. Cox had been “suspended” about a week earlier over his alleged connection to what has been described by some as an

Commentary

Five minutes passed before police were dispatched to fatal attempted break-in

by Jews Can Shoot on July 1, 2019

“Priority 2″…..Ten minutes is forever when there is a crazed person trying to get in your door. GREENSBORO — Jessica Taylor waited nearly 10 minutes for police to arrive as a stranger twice her size was outside her house going “berserk,” yelling, screaming and throwing whatever he could find at the front door. With her

"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.)