“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

Five takeaways from Kyle Rittenhouse’s explosive testimony

by Doris Wise Montrose on November 13, 2021

His weapons discipline was incredible. He only fired when he was under threat essentially. It’s not like he went gun crazy and just started popping people. He even hesitated until the guy with the pistol engaged him. I’m a retired weapons instructor and he obviously didn’t shoot for the protection of property. Only self defense. The prosecution basically did the defense’s job. Pretty abysmal showing.

Kyle Rittenhouse took the stand in his own defense during his murder trial Wednesday in a stunning move, maintaining that he was acting in self defense when he killed two men and injured another during a night of violent unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin last summer.

Rittenhouse, 18, is facing three felony charges for the shootings and told jurors during his testimony that the only reason he was in Kenosha that night was to render first aid to demonstrators, put out fires and protect businesses.

Here are five takeaways from the explosive testimony.

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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.)