“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."

Second Amendment

With pistol brace deadline coming, confusion remains

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 31, 2023

Imagine having to post such a disclaimer to Americans.
“Look, all I’m going to tell you to do is to be careful. The legal situation is up in the air on pistol braces, sure, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still be arrested in the meantime. If you want to be the test case for a challenge of the rule, that’s on you, but know that going into things, not after the damage has already started.”

The ATF’s pistol brace rule goes into effect on Thursday. Millions of people who bought AR-style pistols with the attached braces–bought them in good faith, with the understanding that yes, the ATF said they were legal–will either have had to give up their braces or face prison.

Except, it’s not really that cut-and-dried, now is it?

There’s still an awful lot of confusion remaining on the subject.

By Tom Knighton

H.J. Res. 44 - To block the ATF's unconstitutional pistol brace rule (with download to bill)

Rep. Clyde says GOP leadership tied vote on pistol brace rule to his vote on debt ceiling

"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.)