“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.”
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."
“When a judge issues an Extreme Risk Protection Order,” adds White Plains attorney Peter Tilem, “what he’s doing is he is authorizing the police to go to a person’s house, break down their door in the middle of the night, drag them out of bed, and remove all the guns from the house.” Leaving the
“With antisemitic hate crimes on the rise [never went away], Orthodox Jewish women are packing heat to defend their communities.” More common in the orthodox community than you might think. And not limited to the orthodox Jewish communities. The first thing Mushka Lowenstein does after saying her morning prayers, adjusting her wig, and serving her
“Life is a compromise and so is the .380 ACP.” Massad Ayoob is answering your questions. One question we received was, “Is .380 enough?” Massad looks at the Lehigh Defense Xtreme Defense Solid Copper Bullet. When it comes to .380, ammunition selection is even more important. The right combination of stopping power and penetration is
“Criminals should live in fear, not citizens.” This shouldn’t even have to be said. Unfortunately, with “gun-free zones”, massive relentless efforts to disarm lawful citizens, and criminalizing those who defend themselves while failing to charge/releasing criminals, it is the citizen who lives in fear and the criminal is free to harm citizens. Who benefits from
High potential for abuse. Vermont’s new law and others like it are — by design — so overly broad and vague they could easily be used to force almost any private range out of business. It’s all about the definitions. After all, we’ve seen how one man’s political protest can become another’s insurrection. Neighbors complained about
Annotation The primary purpose of the Second Amendment is to ensure that should a tyrannical power overtake the Nation, Americans will be able to defend themselves; because this danger always exists, gun control should be prohibited. Abstract The necessity of an armed populace was so unanimously advocated in the early Republic that it played a