“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

Police warn against using gun-shaped cellphone cases after traffic stop encounter; cases are banned in Chicago

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 2, 2021

I couldn’t believe this is a real item being sold, purchased, and used. Are people ever going to stop being stupid? Yeah, I know the answer. Do we really need a warning label on this?

Police have put out a public plea asking people not to use cellphone cases shaped like guns after encountering one during a traffic stop and mistaking it for a real pistol.

Illinois Conservation Police officers stopped a stolen vehicle at Illinois Beach State Park in Zion when they saw what appeared to be a handgun sticking out of the waistband of one of the occupants, according to a Facebook post by the Department of Natural Resources, which runs the police agency.

An officer “observed this object and was able to quickly secure the individual in handcuffs and remove it. Only then was it apparent it was a cell phone case and not a real firearm,” the post said.

“DO NOT carry products like this around!! It is dangerous and places all citizens and officers in unnecessary risk of harm,” the post began.

By PETER NICKEAS

National Security’ Excuse Takes War on Guns to Dangerous New Level

Rewriting Heller

"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.)