“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

Six Million Against Gun Control: Lessons from History

by Doris Wise Montrose on February 27, 2021

My article from 2016. More crucial and relevant now.

Within living memory of the survivors, six million Jews, as well as millions of others, were exterminated by Nazi evil. But before Adolph Hitler and the architects of his Final Solution were able to put the plan into effect, it was first necessary to ensure that the victims were disarmed and unable to defend themselves against the Holocaust to come.

When the authorities in Weimer Germany enacted a well-meaning gun registration, it became, as the National Review put it, “a tool for evil.” Law-abiding citizens obeyed – although the criminals, Communists and Nazis committing acts of political terror did not. When Hitler came to power, he used those registration records to identify and disarm political opponents and Jews. Rights were suspended and mass seizures of guns followed.

In 1938 Hitler signed a Gun Control Act that actually became the model for the U.S. Gun Control Act of 1968. Jews were prohibited from working in the firearms industry, and ultimately were ordered to surrender their weapons or face concentration camp – and the police had records on all who had registered them. Even those who surrendered their weapons voluntarily were turned over to the Gestapo. In November 1938 came Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken Glass; by then the Jews had been disarmed and were helpless to resist the pogrom.

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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.)