“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."

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VP Debate Turns to Gun Policy

by Doris Wise Montrose on October 5, 2024

Thursday’s Vice Presidential debate sparked the most substantive back-and-forth on gun policy of the entire campaign.

During a–perhaps surprisingly–civil exchange between Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz, the Vice Presidential candidates laid out their views on school shootings, city gun violence, and rural suicides. The pair detailed competing visions on gun policy but also found several areas where they had at least some agreement.

“I think that Governor Walz and I actually agree we need to do better on this,” Vance said during the CBS News debate. “The question is just how do we do it?”

The exchange, which felt a bit like a throwback to an earlier era, quickly overtook the few seconds spent on guns in the debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris as the longest of the election season. Although, the fight between Harris and Trump over whether she’d confiscate Americans’ firearms was significantly more bombastic and focused on the area of greatest disagreement between the campaigns. Still, Thursday’s more substantive exchange could provide remaining undecided voters further policy details for making up their minds in a race that polling indicates is exceptionally close.

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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.)