“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

Shooting Straight: Ditch Your Home Defense Shotgun

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 11, 2024

“Would you rather have a shotgun loaded with a single-digit number of shotshells or an AR with 10, 20, or 30 rounds? Unless you possess and can use a crystal ball to see into your self-defense future, you can’t know the number of attackers or whether they’ll act as a team or in a disjointed rush.”

Times change. That applies to more than the disturbing resurgence of 90s clothing or the way trucks are turning into glorified Tonka toys. Your home defense shotgun—the one that’s propped up near the front door or leaning against the wall by your bed—it’s time to get rid of it. Or, at least, store it properly and start checking out the realities of 21^st century home defense.

Yes, I’m talking about the fact that an AR-15 rifle beats the hell out of a shotgun for a lot of tactical applications the average home owner will be involved in.

Don’t get me wrong. I’ve trained with every long gun short of muzzle loaders for tactical use. That includes bolt actions, lever actions, AR-15s and, yes, shotguns. If someone tells you that you flat-out can’t use a particular firearm for self/home-defense just because, they’re full of it. Granted, I probably wouldn’t advise a muzzle loader or a flintlock, but you do you.

By Kat Ainsworth Stevens

The Significance of Obtaining a Firearm License.

Federal Court Denies Hunter Biden Appeal On Delaware Gun Charges Case, Sets Up June 3 Trial

"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.)