Year: 2019

Before I started Jews Can Shoot (https://jewscanshoot.com/), I founded Children Of Jewish Holocaust Survivors (because having learned from history, I know how it starts and I know how it ends…). I hosted this discussion on the Second Amendment and attempts to control gun ownership with Eugene Volokh and Adam Winkler.  

‘When the Justice Department won an initial appeals court victory in the case in 2000, federal judge Alex Kozinski warned in a dissent of a new James Bond “007 standard for the use of deadly force” against American citizens. The same court reversed that decision the following year. Kozinski, writing for the majority, declared: “A

Commenter: “G-d delivered the children of Israel from Egypt. But they came out armed. B’shalach 13-18. I suppose Hashem knows a free people are armed and slaves wait for the good will of their masters. If a citizen is restricted access to a certain type or style of firearm, so should the civilian police agencies.

 Borders and guns are both about defense (national defense and self-defense) — so, naturally, the Democrats are opposed to both. They’re allowing thousands of criminal aliens to stream across the border, while they scheme to take away our only means of self-defense. Even the rhetoric is similar. Democrats think gun-ownership is immoral (you might

State Sen. Amanda Chase, R-Chesterfield, wears a sidearm as she presented SJR 275, her resolution reaffirming equal protection under the law, to the Senate Privileges and Elections committee at the State Capitol in Richmond, Va Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. The … more > By Jessica Chasmar – The Washington Times – Thursday, January 17, 2019

The Everett Daily Herald (Jerry Cornfield) reports (see also this AP story): Lt. Gov. Cyrus Habib did not preside at the governor’s address to a joint session of the Legislature on Tuesday because he felt vulnerable in the House chamber, where people can carry concealed weapons in the public galleries. “There is no specific threat

Government and criminal rolled into one. This is why they want law-abiding citizens disarmed. “Bullets and booze don’t mix,” Alderman Edward Burke growled. Then the Chairman of the Finance Committee vowed to fight the NRA. He had spent much of his 50 years in power fighting for gun control. And the man dubbed “Alderman-for-Life”, whose

Gun Control: Turning Citizens into Disarmed Subjects Venezuelans are now defenseless against a government that runs roughshod over their civil liberties, while also destroying their economic livelihood. As if it weren’t enough, everyday Venezuelans must put up with rampant crime and the constant threat of colectivos, Venezuela’s infamous pro-government paramilitary units. Is Venezuela paying the

(Rodney Sabel’s response to the Gun Legislation Advocacy Committee of his Temple in Los Angeles, California, in 2013.) This Temple’s Gun Legislation Advocacy Committee has been granted a great deal of time, space and resources to circulate information about so-called “sensible gun legislation”, while the opposition is limited to this single 500-word reply.  If this

We’ve discussed both the need for an honest evaluation of the present political situation of the Second Amendment as well as the need to use the right tactics and strategies for a given job. Now, we will delve a little into the tactical/strategic area some more, this time by looking at a tactic that was