“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

Creating huge handguns

by Doris Wise Montrose on April 15, 2023

John Linebaugh grew up in a world without guns — the weapons were banned in his family on account of a shooting accident that happened when his father was still in school.

Naturally, the ban ignited Linebaugh’s curiosity — and a passion that would stay with him his whole career, eventually resulting in the creation of the .500 and .475 Linebaughs.

These guns — “packable, practical and powerful,” Linebaugh told the Cody Enterprise in 1990 — quickly became favorites of handgun users around the world.

“The .475 and .500 Linebaughs have shot entirely through elephants, been carried alone against cape buffalo, and … have made the name of their maker known around the world,” Editor Ray Ordorica wrote in the 1996 book “Handguns ‘96,” which is available in the Park County Archives. “… The world knows John Linebaugh today because he had a good idea and the integrity and guts to see it through.”

Linebaugh died March 19 at the age of 67, and was buried in Clark on March 28.

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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.)