“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

Clever but Wrong — Inside the Anti-Gun Arguments at the Supreme Court

by Doris Wise Montrose on November 2, 2021

“Anti-gun lawyers are both clever and relentless. That’s a key point to understand as the Supreme Court takes up a major Second Amendment case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.”

In earlier posts (here and here), I showed why the State of New York has a weak case for restricting the right to carry guns outside the home. According to the clear standard the Supreme Court has set, New York’s gun law should not be declared constitutional. That standard, established in District of Columbia v. Heller, holds that the constitutionality of gun laws turns on the text, history, and tradition of the Second Amendment and gun rights during America’s founding.

So, it’s no surprise that New York’s lawyers are pushing the Court to change the standard. They insist that an interest in promoting public safety justifies the state’s restrictive public-carry law. This approach allows them to paint a picture of “blood running in the streets” if the Court lifts New York’s restriction.

But that picture is completely misleading. Even if, suddenly, everyone agreed to accept concerns for public safety as a standard for reviewing New York’s gun law, New York’s defense should fail.

By Mark W. Smith

Most Important Second Amendment Case in over a Decade Is on Deck

November 3. Listen to the audio recordings of the oral arguments at SCOTUS on 2A case

"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.)