“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

Watchdog Group Says ATF Is Scheming to Ban Private Gun Sales

by Doris Wise Montrose on April 11, 2024

“ATF whistleblowers have said that at the Biden Administration’s request the agency has drafted a 1,300-page document attempting to justify a rule banning most, if not all, private firearms sales.”

A watchdog group is blowing the whistle on an alleged “fine-tuning” of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive’s already restrictive engaged-in-the-business rule. According to Empower Oversight, ATF whistleblowers have said that at the Biden Administration’s request the agency has drafted a 1,300-page document attempting to justify a rule banning most, if not all, private firearms sales.

“The fact that inside ATF sources are blowing the whistle on this draft rule is an indication of what a difficult position it would put the ATF in,” Tristan Leavitt, president of Empower Oversight, said in a news alert. “ATF agents did not sign up to go after law-abiding citizens for private sales protected under the Second Amendment of the Constitution.”

In response to the reports, the organization has sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and ATF Director Steven Dettelbach requesting more information about the proposal.

By Mark Chesnut

Is There a Doctor in the House, and Is He Asking About Your Guns?

Who will ATF shoot next?

"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.)