“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

An armed Jew is a safer Jew and not a perpetual victim. Just ask young Israelis (Opinion)

by Doris Wise Montrose on June 29, 2024

The very sad irony. This article on armed Jews was written in 2020.

Though I live in Pennsylvania, I am a Jew and therefore I share an equal stake in the outcome of Delaware’s ridiculous and now partisan debate about whether Jews should be the world’s constant victims, or not.

I vote for “not.”

State Sen. Dave Lawson correctly stated a simple belief held by many American Jews, namely that an armed Jew is a safer Jew. If the Jews of Europe held on to firearms, they could have more easily conducted tactical retreats to safer places (America, Israel, Russia, eastern Poland) in the early parts of the Nazi extermination program, as well as more effective subsequent partisan resistance from the forests of Poland.

By Josh First

Chaotic scenes as anti-Israel protesters surround synagogue in Los Angeles

Why Do Federal Bureaucrats Need So Much Firepower?

"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.)