“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

Inside the Fight to Reform the NRA

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 23, 2024

After a marathon 12-hour board meeting on Monday that saw reformers win key leadership positions, NRA board members Amanda Suffecool and Jim Wallace are giving the Bearing Arms Cam & Co community an inside look at last weekend’s Annual Meeting, the fight to reform the organization, and both the challenges and opportunities ahead for the NRA as it seeks to regain the trust of members and 2A supporters.

Both board members say they’re gratified by the support shown from NRA members throughout the weekend, including at Saturday’s Members Meeting, where a majority of those in attendance voted down a resolution supporting a potential move of NRA headquarters from Fairfax, Virginia to Dallas, Texas. Suffacool was among those speaking out in opposition to the resolution, and tells Bearing Arms there simply wasn’t enough information given to members (or board members, for that matter) to make an informed decision.

I’m an analytic person. I have spent my entire career as an engineer in operations; moving plants, consolidating plants, picking up companies that were in trouble. So I want to see data to make the best decisions.

By Cam Edwards

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Disparity of Force

"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.)