“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

Pistol Packin’ Mama (and Daddy, too)

by Doris Wise Montrose on January 22, 2023

“Wearing a firearm is an universally understood observable cue and something we all can do to reduce criminal activity.”

People ask me what we can do to stop the crazy.

Here’s a simple thought that everyone can do.

One simple step is, anywhere and anytime possible, start wearing your sidearm.

Get comfortable with it as normal as picking up your car keys in the morning. If your state is open carry or you have a concealed carry permit, do it. Let people see that you are armed and if it upsets them, good enough, because they need upsetting.

And you don’t have to walk around bristling with the firepower of a WWII battleship, I have a little S&W M&P Shield Plus in 9mm that I wear almost every day. If I’m feeling extra manly, I wear a drop holster and select my Beretta PX4 Storm or my 92FS.

By Michael Smith

Illinois Governor Pritzker Blasts Sheriffs for Refusing to Enforce New Gun-Control Law

Rights Protected by the Second Amendment are Being Restored, NOT Created

"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.)