“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

My Bad: City Officials Now Claim Emergency Order Banning Guns was a Mistake

by Doris Wise Montrose on October 5, 2024

Shades of Katrina. Disarm the citizens. “Never let a crisis go to waste when an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” (Attributed to Rahm Emanuel but first said by Winston Churchill)

Before Hurricane Helene made landfall, several municipalities in Florida declared local states of emergency to ensure they would be available for state and federal funds needed for expected storm-related cleanup and repair. As earlier reported on TTAG and other gun websites and news outlets, the city of Okeechobee went so far in theirs as to ban the sale of guns and ammunition and prohibited public firearm possession by anyone other than law enforcement or military members.

The move brought an instant reaction from citizens across the country who saw this as an illegal restriction of constitutional rights. The response amounted to today’s social media version of a tar and feathering and much of the anger was directed toward the man who signed the order, Okeechobee Police Chief Donald Hagan.

Police officials are now claiming to 12 News in Florida that the signing of the order was all just a big mistake. Late yesterday, the Okeechobee Police Department admitted to enacting the wrong declaration last week, which mistakenly included a gun ban.

By Doug Howlett

VP Debate Turns to Gun Policy

VP Debate: Vance Let Moderators and Walz Mislead Voters on Gun Rights

"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.)