“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

Where Do the VP Candidates Stand on Guns?

by Doris Wise Montrose on October 5, 2024

Trigger warning! No pun intended.
The Trace is a “news” source founded and funded by Everytown for Gun Safety. (The anti-gunners and the Left in general are notoriously successful for co-opting words.)Informed pro-2A gun owners need to know what the anti-gunners are saying. This is the purpose of this post.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and U.S. Senator JD Vance of Ohio seem poised to spar over gun policy during the vice presidential debate on October 1 — only weeks after two high-profile mass shootings and a second attempted assassination on former President Donald Trump.

Where do the vice presidential candidates stand on this issue? We’ve assembled this primer on their records.

Walz’s evolution

Walz is a hunter and 24-year veteran of the Army National Guard. He began his political career in 2007 as a center-left member of the U.S. House from a rural, conservative district along Minnesota’s southern border. Throughout his five congressional terms, he earned A ratings from the National Rifle Association and rarely supported gun violence prevention measures.

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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.)