“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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Connecticut’s Sandy Hook AR-15 ban prompts grammatical debate in Second Circuit

by Doris Wise Montrose on October 19, 2024

Attorneys sparred over whether AR-15s should be considered “dangerous and unusual weapons” under Supreme Court precedent.

MANHATTAN (CN) — The Second Circuit heard arguments Wednesday in two cases from gun rights groups challenging Connecticut’s restrictions on AR-15 ownership, which tightened significantly after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012.

Both suits target Connecticut officials over the state’s 2013 law titled An Act Concerning Gun Violence Prevention and Children’s Safety. The law included comprehensive gun reform in the wake of the Sandy Hook mass shooting, in which 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people at the elementary school using an AR-15-style rifle. Twenty of Lanza’s victims were between six and seven years old.

One of the cases came from the National Association for Gun Rights, a controversial gun advocacy group that describes itself as more conservative than the National Rifle Association. Connecticut Citizens Defense League and the Second Amendment Foundation, another gun rights groups, filed the other lawsuit.

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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.)