“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

Internet pokes fun at rusty gun taken ‘off the streets’ by Toronto police

by Doris Wise Montrose on August 29, 2022

“According to Twitter, possible suspects include Moses, Cain, and George Washington.”
This kind of dangerous stupidity really saddens me. Canada was the only country who took in my parents who had survived the Holocaust and had met and married in a Displaced Persons camp in Germany.

Toronto police are doing an admirable job getting guns off the streets and they’ve been sharing the results of their work on Twitter, posting pictures of deadly weapons seized on their @TPSGunsSeized account.

It’s obviously no laughing matter.

But a recent post, showing a heavily-rusted gun that looks like it was procured from an archeological dig, has triggered a slew of punchlines online.

As many pointed out, the six-shooter appears more likely to result in a Tetanus shot, than a gun shot.

By Michael Talbot

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Sen. Joni Ernst questions Merrick Garland's 'knock and talk' gun enforcement push

"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.)