“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

GOP Senators Stand Firm Against Democratic Push to Ban Bump Stocks

by Doris Wise Montrose on June 20, 2024

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is the only Republican so far who has signed on to the legislation.

In a decisive move on Tuesday, Republican senators blocked a Democratic effort to pass a ban on bump stocks, a firearm accessory that has been at the center of heated debate even among pro-gun activists. The Democratic proposal, spearheaded by Senator Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, came on the heels of a recent Supreme Court ruling that struck down a Trump-era ban on the devices.

Senator Heinrich, backed by several Democrats and one Republican, sought to reinstate the ban, arguing that bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire at a rapid pace, pose a significant threat to public safety. He called for the Senate to pass the measure through unanimous consent, a fast-track procedure requiring no objections from lawmakers. However, this move was promptly halted by Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska, who dismissed it as another instance of “Democrat summer of show votes.”

Senator Ricketts, defending the GOP stance, stated, “This bill isn’t about just bump stocks. It’s about banning as many firearm accessories as possible and infringing on the rights of law-abiding gun owners. It’s an unconstitutional overreach that disregards the clear boundaries set by the Supreme Court.”

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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.)