“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

Who Dies First After SHTF – 6 Groups

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 23, 2024

The scene I remember most from The Walking Dead first few seasons when one of the characters lights up a wad of paper money. Paper money would be useful to fuel a fire.

Let’s have a difficult conversation. It’s about who dies first after SHTF. It’s a difficult conversation because you—or someone you love—might fall into one of the 6 groups of people I’m going to describe. The 5^th group might offend some of you.

This isn’t something that’s exactly fun to talk about, but it’s a reality. A LOT of people will die in a large-scale collapse or prolonged crisis. There’s just no way around that. It won’t be pretty. This isn’t hard to imagine. Take a coordinated EMP attack, for example, an attack that simultaneously targets the East and West coasts of the United States.

The most immediate, most noticeable impact would be the loss of electrical power across vast areas. Within minutes, entire cities would plunge into darkness. Communication networks would fail, disrupting emergency services, causing widespread panic and confusion. The initial hours would be marked by a frantic struggle to understand the situation, with people seeking information and assistance.

By Braylon Smith

Ninth Circuit finds that convicted felons also have Second Amendment rights

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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.)