“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

California Town Declares Itself A ‘2nd Amendment Sanctuary City’

by Jews Can Shoot on July 4, 2019

“They said, ‘basically it’s because we’re not going to disarm ourselves,’”…

#NeverAgainWillWeBeDisarmed

The Needles city council has unanimously voted to declare their small desert town as a sanctuary city for gun owners.

The city of approximately 5,000 people, which borders both Nevada and Arizona, believes that the State of California has imposed too many restrictions on citizens’ Second Amendment rights, the Associated Press reported.

The council has also directed the Needles city attorney to draft a resolution asking state lawmakers to allow licensed gun owners from outside California to carry their firearms within city limits.

Needles City Councilman Tim Terral, who sponsored the “2nd Amendment Sanctuary City” measure, said he doesn’t expect the Democratic-led legislature to honor their request.

Terral also acknowledged that the city used the “sanctuary city” verbiage to push back against California’s designation as a “sanctuary state” for immigration laws.

by Holly Matkin

What's great about America on Independence Day 2019

The Fates of the Founders

"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.)