“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."

Second Amendment

CAL. CCW CASE ILLUSTRATES PROBLEM WITH ‘MAY ISSUE’ LAWS

by Doris Wise Montrose on December 14, 2020

One month from this Friday — Jan. 11, 2021 — an arraignment is scheduled in a Santa Clara County courtroom in a case that may clearly illustrate what gun rights activists see as a huge problem with state laws that allow great discretion on the part of law enforcement to decide who gets a license or permit to carry a concealed defensive sidearm.

Last month, a grand jury issued indictments naming Undersheriff Rick Sung and Sheriff’s Capt. James Jensen in an alleged scheme to trade concealed carry licenses for nearly $70,000 worth of iPads for employees of Apple, Inc., the tech giant. Also named in the indictments are Thomas Moyer, Apple’s chief of global security, and Harpreet Chadha, a local insurance broker.

If the court determines there is enough evidence to go forward with prosecution, the results might be bad for the suspects but perhaps worse for anyone defending the “may issue” philosophy. Concealed carry activists believe “may issue” never was a good idea, and in several cases, has apparently turned into a very bad system.

BY DAVE WORKMAN

Philadelphia Reissues Carry Permits after GOA Legal Victory

What If We Wrote the Constitution Today?

"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.)