“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

Disparity of Force

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 23, 2024

Lethal force comes in all shapes and sizes.

One of the terms that many armed citizens are not aware of is “disparity of force.” Now, let me be clear, I am not an attorney and cannot give you legal advice. What I can do is make you aware of the term and encourage you to do some research.

Disparity of force is when your attacker, though unarmed, is still capable of causing death or serious bodily injury, thus justifying a deadly force response. This may take many forms and almost certainly will vary from situation to situation. Here are some examples that might apply.

A young woman (110 pounds) was attacked in her parking lot by a man who weighed well over 200 pounds. Her attacker was telling her, graphically, what he was going to do to her as he grabbed her. When the woman resisted, the man struck her one blow to the face which busted two of her front teeth. As she hit the ground, she grabbed her .38 snub-nosed revolver from her purse and fired, stopping the attack.

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"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.)