“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

Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Caught in Extensive Misuse of Criminal Database for Concealed Carry Checks

by Doris Wise Montrose on February 12, 2025

In a troubling revelation, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LACSD) has been found extensively misusing sensitive criminal justice databases to conduct unauthorized background checks when approving concealed carry firearm permit applications. This major breach comprised the bulk of a record 7,275 violations across California in 2023, highlighting a systemic issue within state law enforcement agencies.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) uncovered these violations through diligent public records requests, revealing that LACSD was responsible for 6,789 of these incidents. This misuse of the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) not only undermines trust in law enforcement but also infringes on the privacy rights of individuals.

“Mandatory data collection on CLETS violations and its disclosure better enables the public to understand and question how databases like CLETS are used and abused,” stated Beryl Lipton, a senior investigator at EFF, emphasizing the importance of transparency and accountability in law enforcement operations.

By F Riehl, Editor in Chief

Red flag laws, also known as Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs)

Biden’s Gun Violence Office Disappears From White House Website

"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.)