“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."

Day: August 13, 2023

Second Amendment

Tennessee Democrats announce gun control bus tour dates

by Doris Wise Montrose on August 13, 2023

Propaganda tour. (The Center Square) – Tennessee Democratic leaders announced the first leg of their statewide gun reform bus tour Tuesday as discussions remain heated heading into a planned Aug. 21 special session of the Tennessee Legislature on public safety. The tour will begin at 5 p.m. on Wednesday at the National Civil Rights Museum

Second Amendment

AG Garland Sees Homemade Firearms as Loophole: Analyst

by Doris Wise Montrose on August 13, 2023

Garland et al see the Second Amendment as a loophole. The Supreme Court says no to homemade firearms, at least for now. Investigative journalist and Epoch Times Contributor Matthew Vadum breaks down the legal saga over ‘ghost guns’ with NTD. Read more By Chris Beers

Commentary

Smuggled arms into Warsaw ghetto

by Doris Wise Montrose on August 13, 2023

Vladka Meed worked as a courier for the Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto; she smuggled in pistols, petrol and dynamite which were used in the doomed uprising of 1943 – when lightly-armed fighters emerged from the sewers and alleyways to challenge the forces of the Third Reich. The Germans established the ghetto in October

"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.)