“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

Inside The Mind of an Anti-Gun Gun Owner

by Doris Wise Montrose on December 1, 2024

I know a woman who bought a gun at the urging of her sons. She took a class so now she’s a sharpshooter. She also supports and donates to Sandy Hook Promise. So this article doesn’t surprise me.

The typical Bearing Arms reader is, I suspect, pretty close to the typical gun owner. While we may range across the demographic spectrum, the average reader is either conservative or libertarian in their ideology.

But I’m genuinely fascinated by those who don’t share that ideology and are still gun owners. I genuinely believe that gun owners will, in time become gun voters so I support people from across the ideological divide to own guns and learn to defend themselves with one.

Sometimes, though, I’m genuinely baffled by the thought processes, such as they are, that some people use to justify whatever it is they want to justify. That’s what ran through my head when I read this long and rambling piece written by someone who doesn’t believe in gun rights, but who has a gun anyway.

I won’t even try to get into the background the author exposes us to, in part because it’s unnecessary and in part because it’s about eight million words to say “I’m a really, really lefty leftist.”

By Tom Knighton

Where Does Pam Bondi Stand on Gun Control?

A Clean Bill of Health?

"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.)