“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

THE NEGLIGENT DISCHARGE

by Doris Wise Montrose on August 20, 2023

“Only YOU can prevent Negligent Discharges.”

Off the top, let me say there is really nothing funny about a Negligent Discharge (ND), aka “Accidental Discharge.” Seriously — nothing funny there. (Insert sound of sheepish giggling.) Stop it! I’m serious.

It has been said there are two types of shooters — those who have had a negligent discharge and those who will have a negligent discharge. My own experience has borne this out. No matter how careful you are, at some point an unintended bullet or shot charge will exit your firearm when you didn’t mean for it to happen.

Fortunately, in the vast majority of cases, nothing transpires except some profound chagrin and maybe a brief burst of anger and frustration. Occasionally a tragedy occurs and the first paragraph in this tirade is proven true, but we’re going to move past those instances and focus on those times where the only damage is to ego. We’ll go down that road to illustrate the idea it can — nay, will — happen to you.

By Brent Wheat

New Baldwin Findings Could Open Door to Additional Charges

Here lies gun control

"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.)