“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

Don’t defend gun buybacks with nonsense

by Doris Wise Montrose on October 30, 2022

“Criminals don’t typically carry an arsenal like a character in Call of Duty. They only use one gun at a time. Selling extra guns doesn’t do anything except put cash in their pockets. They’re still walking around and able to hurt people.”

Philadelphia is a rough city in this day and age. It’s not the only time it’s been rough, mind you, but I’m not going to talk about the past. I want to talk about now.

And now has tons of violent crime. That’s led to some pushing for gun buybacks.

Yet, the Philadelphia Inquirer asked an important question. They wanted to know if buybacks were a good idea, so they got two pieces written up. One against buyback and one in favor.

Obviously, I’m not a fan of buybacks. Study after study shows they simply don’t work.

That won’t stop some from pushing them, even if they have to make up a version that will.

By Tom Knighton

Judge Blocks New York State’s Ban on Carrying Firearms in Houses of Worship

Joe Biden Pushing to Limit Gun Owners to ‘Eight Bullets in a Round’

"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.)