“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."

Commentary

21 Things to Know About Firearm Ownership and Target Shooting in the U.S.

by Doris Wise Montrose on February 5, 2025

Here are 21 things to know about firearm ownership and recreational shooting in the United States based on decades of Responsive Management research for the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, NSSF, CAHSS, the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, the Outdoor Stewards of Conservation Foundation, the Hunters’ Leadership Forum, and other clients:

1. Just under half of all Americans live in a household with a firearm. Responsive Management’s latest trend survey for NSSF found that 42% of Americans live in a household with a firearm, while 32% personally own a firearm. These numbers are consistent with the rates from other high-quality surveys conducted by Gallup and the Pew Research Center.

2. Firearm sales have increased dramatically over the past 20 years. National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) data maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (a widely used industry proxy for gun sales) show that checks have steadily risen over the past two decades, topping out in 2020 but remaining high in subsequent years. Since 2009 alone, as many as 228 million more firearms have entered U.S. circulation.

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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.)