“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

Bottom Line: Republicans Didn’t Question Bondi on Her Anti-Gun Positions

by Doris Wise Montrose on January 23, 2025

“Despite Bondi’s Support for Gun Control, Republicans Drop the Ball on the 2A While Democrats Pledge to Defend Infringements.”
I fear the Republicans will fail us. Again.

Not a single Republican Senator on the Judiciary Committee asked Pam Bondi about her commitment to the Second Amendment today—despite her past support for ‘red flag’ laws, gun bans for 18–20-year-old adults, and more,” Gun Owners of America posted on X.com Jan. 15. “What gives, Senators?”

It’s more than a legitimate question, especially considering how Republicans couldn’t be enjoying majorities in the House and Senate, and Donald Trump in the Oval Office, were it not for gun owner support, based in large part on grandiose campaign promises. Add to that, GOA had sent out a national alert to its members five days before the confirmation hearing asking them “to contact your Senators and urge them to demand answers from Pam Bondi so gun owners know exactly where she stands on the Second Amendment.”

That was supplemented with an effort by this correspondent, contacting Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans suggesting relevant questions based on Bondi’s past actions and pending opportunities, including:

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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.)