“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

Buy-back program will run ballistics tests on all guns turned in

by Doris Wise Montrose on October 18, 2020

“The original policy of the program, announced in September, was that firearms would not be tested for matches with ongoing cases and that guns would be destroyed at the end of the program.”

PROVIDENCE — A gun buyback program organized by the cities of Providence and Central Falls will begin on Saturday but with a new policy in place — police will now run ballistics tracing on every weapon that’s turned in.

Community members and local activists, however, are still questioning whether such a program is the correct response to the recent weeks of shootings and homicides that have plagued the cities.

The original policy of the program, announced in September, was that firearms would not be tested for matches with ongoing cases and that guns would be destroyed at the end of the program.

The Rhode Island Second Amendment Coalition filed a temporary restraining order in Providence Superior Court to halt the program, claiming that destroying a stolen weapon would violate the rights of its owner. A judge on Friday denied the order.

By Madeleine List

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President Trump: “I’ll sign national reciprocity for gun owners if it reaches my desk”

"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.)