“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

Michael Bloomberg’s Semantics

by Doris Wise Montrose on August 6, 2023

How to lie about gun control

No wrongheaded idea in all of American political life is more difficult to dislodge than the idea that more guns, and fewer gun-control laws, leads inevitably to more crime. The claim is a constant refrain of politicians who seek to shirk responsibility for crime; it is the supposition that undergirds every call for Draconian regulation and disarmament; it is the working assumption of the mainstream media, which, having been fully co-opted by activist groups, is happy to repeat it at every opportunity.

Trouble is: It’s false. Indeed, it is nonsense.

Between 1990 and 2013, the number of guns owned by Americans more than doubled. Over the same period, a whole host of restrictive laws were repealed at both the state and federal levels. And yet, during those two decades of change, homicides involving firearms were cut in half. Does this surprise you? It shouldn’t. The world is a complex place, full of complex relationships. People, not inanimate objects, break laws.

By Charles C. W. Cooke

Blending In While Carrying Concealed

Smuggled arms into Warsaw ghetto

"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.)