“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

Lawmaker Introduces Bill Abolishing ATF

by Doris Wise Montrose on December 1, 2024

But… Democrats still have enough numbers in the Senate to use the filibuster.

When former Rep. Matt Gaetz introduced a bill to abolish the ATF, it was mostly a lost cause, at best. At worst is was little more than grandstanding to appease his base. The bill would have been amazing to see pass, but it was never going to happen. Even if the House would pass it, it was unlikely to get a vote in the Democrat-controlled Senate.

So, it did what so many other bills do. It died on the vine.

In January, though, things are going to change in Congress. Not only does it look like Republicans will hold onto their control of the House, depending on how things go in a special election in Florida to fill Gaetz’s seat–and do we really think a district that would elect Gaetz would turn blue?–might even be in a little stronger position. They also have control of the Senate and the White House. In short, they should be able to do a lot of things they want to.

And now, another bill has been introduced that would end the ATF.

By Tom Knighton

A Clean Bill of Health?

Second Amendment advocates urge Trump to leash ATF, pick pro-gun director

"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.)