“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."

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Second Amendment Challenge to N.J. Gun Range Closure

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 15, 2020

‘“The right to self-defense is “the central component of the [Second Amendment] right,” Heller, 554 U.S. at 599 (emphasis added), and it is “a basic right, recognized by many legal systems from ancient times to the present day,” McDonald, 561 U.S. at 767. Indeed, the right to self-protection and self-preservation was viewed at the Founding as a natural right that predates government and is necessarily reserved to the people when government is established. See Heller, 554 U.S. at 593–94 (citing, e.g., 1 William Blackstone, Commentaries 136, 139–40 (1765)). The importance of the right to self-defense is shown in sharp relief in times of national emergency, such as the present pandemic, when ordinary social routines, practices, and safeguards begin to break down.’

From the motion for a preliminary injunction in Ricci v. Murphy (D.N.J.) (filed yesterday by Dan Schmutter of Hartman & Winnicki and David H. Thompson, Peter A. Patterson, and Steven J. Lindsay of Cooper & Kirk), which challenges the inclusion of gun ranges in the New Jersey Governor’s business closure order:…

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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.)