“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

Kevin Costner Speaks On His Passion For Hunting At Dallas Event

by Doris Wise Montrose on April 6, 2023

I first met Kevin Costner several years ago when I was invited by an agent friend to join a handful of Hollywood A-listers for a feral boar hunt in the central coast of California. The prolific pigs had outbred their welcome and the farmers and wine growers needed relief in getting the swine populations under control. Having spent a fair amount of time around celebrities who had interest—but often not a lot of experience—with outdoor pursuits, I always approach such outings with a degree of caution. That’s especially the case when firearms are involved.

Prior to our hunt, we did the obligatory check of our rifles to make sure both the gun and hunter were on. It was obvious that Costner was more than a Hollywood cowboy—he was comfortable around his rifle, safe and fluid in its handling. The reason for that was simple—he grew up a hunter and fell hard for the lifestyle at a young age.

He shared the story of his origins in the field sports at the annual Park Cities Quail Coalition banquet recently in Dallas. The event is billed as, “Conservation’s greatest night,” owing to the extraordinary amount of money raised (some $3.5 million this night) for bobwhite quail research and management. More than 1,200 who’s who of Texas businessmen and philanthropists turned out for what has become one of the conservation world’s can’t-miss galas.

By Chris Dorsey

The 2nd Amendment's Misconstrued 'Militia'

Jews of the Wild West

"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.)