“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.”

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."

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Why some of us question the relationship between doing well in competitive shooting vs. self-defense shooting

by Doris Wise Montrose on September 18, 2021

Why some of us question the relationship between doing well in competitive shooting vs. self-defense shooting.

Why some of us question the relationship between doing well in competitive shooting vs. self-defense shooting.

The first-place finisher in this match:

1) Shot two no-shoots. (As did one other shooter in the top 12.)

2) Had 7 shots off target (more than any of the top 11 shooters.)

3) Had the lowest number of fight stopping hits (A Zone) of the top 11 shooters.

But he’s the winner because he did all that REALLY quickly.

Atlantic Writer Promotes Culture War on Gun Ownership

"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.)

Why some of us question the relationship between doing well in competitive shooting vs. self-defense shooting

ATTITUDES SHIFT TOWARD RIGHTS OVER CONTROL AS GUN OWNERSHIP GROWS

Atlantic Writer Promotes Culture War on Gun Ownership