“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

Ninth Circuit Vacates California Magazine Ban Decision

by Doris Wise Montrose on February 27, 2021

Once they establish that government can tell you how many rounds your magazine can hold, there is nothing to stop them from specifying the magic number. If they can set the limit at 10, why not 9? 8? 7? 6? 5? 4? 3? 2? 1?

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has moved to vacate the decision of a three judge panel that ruled California’s ban on the acquisition and possession of ammunition magazines that can hold more than ten rounds violated the Second Amendment, granting a motion to rehear the case with a broader pool of judges in an opinion released Thursday afternoon.

While on the surface this may look like bad news, it’s not unexpected. Virtually every pro-Second Amendment opinion coming out of the Ninth Circuit is reheard by an en banc panel, and plaintiffs in this case, known as Duncan vs. Becerra, have been waiting for months for the court to make official what everyone suspected; anti-gun judges on the court want a re-do in the hopes of overturning the decision.

The federal lawsuit was filed in 2017 by the California Rifle and Pistol Association — the state arm of the National Rifle Association — and five San Diego County residents.

Amid Shortage, Gun Shop Opens Ammo-Free Range

The Bill of Rights

"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.)