“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

Could This Be Bruen’s Biggest Victory Yet?

by Doris Wise Montrose on August 29, 2023

Massachusetts Judge States that Your Carry Rights Don’t End at Your State’s Border

We’ve talked a lot about last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in New York Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen in which the court prescribed a new process for determining the constitutionality of firearms laws. Since that ruling last June, gun owners have repeatedly won important victories in court while challenging a number of different types of restrictions on gun ownership.

It’s likely that none of those cases, however, are quite as important as a recent case in Massachusetts, where a judge has ruled that the right to carry a firearm for self-defense does not end when a lawful American crosses state lines.

Of course, we have known that all along. After all, the Second Amendment protects a right to “keep and bear arms” and says nothing about doing so only in the state in which you reside. But to have a judge make such a ruling is a giant leap forward for those who believe artificial lines drawn on a map can’t make natural rights suddenly vanish.

By Mark Chesnut

D.C. to Pay Gun Owners $5.1 Million for Unconstitutional Arrests and Confiscations

Talk to your kids about guns

"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.)