“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

Shutting down ‘ghost gun’ bans good for the Second Amendment

by Doris Wise Montrose on January 3, 2022

“Every gun is supposed to be a ghost gun. It is none of the government’s or anybody else’s business what guns you buy, make, or sell as those activities are covered under the 2A”

So-called ghost guns are terrifying to someone who doesn’t believe in private gun ownership. After all, if people can make their own guns, then gun control as a concept simply cannot exist in any meaningful way except to disarm the law-abiding. After all, if criminals can just make their own guns, that’s precisely who will be alone in complying with the laws.

A number of places have decided to ban such weapons, obviously not thinking about the fact that a ban won’t stop criminals from building these guns. One such state was Nevada.

However, that ban didn’t go particularly well, as Gabriella Hoffman noted in a recent op-ed:

By Tom Knighton

Anti-gun Dems want to reduce penalty for drive-by shootings

Philadelphia’s Emphasis on ‘Gun Laws’ Guarantees Violence Will Continue

"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.)