“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

When they come for us, YOU are getting on the train, too.

by Doris Wise Montrose on September 17, 2023

“Earlier today, I watched an interview with a Holocaust survivor. A very nice, mild mannered gentleman.

He said that, over the years, people have asked him numerous times about why he didn’t fight back against the Nazis. He answered them by saying that when you’re naked, and surrounded by a hundred soldiers with machine guns, it’s hard to think of a way that you could have any success by fighting back.

But then, he made a much more important statement. This is something all Jews, especially the more passive ones who like to stay quiet and blend in, need to consider.

The time to fight back isn’t after you’ve been rounded up and are already a helpless prisoner. The time to fight back is before that, when anti-Semitism is on the rise — like it is right now. Any news source will confirm that fact.

I’ll repeat something I say often. No matter who you are, or what your level of observance is as a Jew, no matter how many times you attend synagogue or how many holidays you celebrate, no matter how much or how little your support Israel, no matter how vocal you are about your identity as a Jew, or how closely you guard it as a secret —

When they come for us, YOU are getting on the train, too.
(Shared from Jeff Schimell)

Father weighs legal action after school suspends 1st-grader over finger gun during game: 'Infuriated'

A veteran started a gun shop. When a struggling soldier asked him to store his firearms – he started saving lives.

"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.)