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“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

by Doris Wise Montrose on December 10, 2019

And, how about we get a Constitutional ruling from the Supreme Court on that highly UN-Constitutional Bump-Stock Ban, stemming from an un-elected regulatory agency arbitrarily making up definitions out of the thin air…

Clarence Thomas calls the Second Amendment the Supreme Court’s “constitutional orphan,” lamenting that it is “a disfavored right in this court.” Sadly, the orphan could get neglected again this term.

On Monday, Dec. 2, the Supreme Court heard the case New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. City of New York. An extremely restrictive New York state law barred some licensed gun owners from transporting their firearms outside of their homes except to specific gun ranges. This meant they couldn’t take their gun to a second home upstate if they wanted to do so to protect their family while traveling.

The state of New York rescinded the law, probably because it would have been overturned, and has begged the Supreme Court to declare the case “moot,” lest the justices issue a sweeping ruling on the constitutional merits. Based on reports from Monday’s oral arguments, it seems that the justices might buy this argument. The justices on the left all made it plain that they thought there was no case left to consider.

by Washington Examiner

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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.)