“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

Learning Takes a Lifetime

by Doris Wise Montrose on September 7, 2024

A student of the gun is always learning, because there’s always something to learn.

I was reading a survey recently which claimed a majority of people, regardless of their age, thought music was best in their late adolescence and early 20s. This is understandable, because that’s the age when most people are most intensely engaged with music, as well as experiencing many significant life events for the first time.

You’re more likely to get heavily imprinted on the music of your first date—or the album that got you through your first breakup—than whatever happens to be the background radio noise during your commute to work in your forties. That’s why most folks’ favorite songs date from when they were young.

Some people, though, remain more heavily into music over the years. Perhaps they’re in a band, write music reviews for a living or they’re just avid fans. These people are more likely to find new favorites or explore different genres than the general public.

By Tamara Keel

A Federal Judge Says Carry-Permit Holders Have a Right to Armed Self-Defense on Public Transit

CDC, FBI Working To Hide Data Showing Shootings Stopped By Good Guys With Guns

"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.)