“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

The Guns That Got Away

by Doris Wise Montrose on September 20, 2022

I’m sure any of us could create such a list of regrets.

THIS STORY is about guns I sold for one reason or another and have regretted selling ever since. I confess that I did a similar piece for Gun Digest in the early 1980s, except instead of writing about my own guns, I wrote about firearms that my gun-writing colleagues had sold.

Back then we used telephones, and my first call went to John Wootters, asking if he’d ever let one go that he wished he had kept. There was a long, long, silence, and then John said, “Have you got the rest of the day?”

The rifle that John regretted selling most of all was a Winchester Model 88 lever-action .308 that he called Jumper, because when it was time to shoot, it seemed to jump onto the target. He got Jumper in 1953 when he got back from Korea and traded it in 1962 for a Remington 700 in 7mm Remington Magnum. Jumper was the best deer rifle he ever owned, and he looked for it until he passed on in 2013.

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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.)