“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

Supreme Court amicus briefs on gun crime in Mexico

by Doris Wise Montrose on March 3, 2025

‘”How does a foreign government sue U.S. businesses in the U.S. for unlawful activity in their country?”
Contrary to an exactly on point US law, yet!
They do it by finding US judges willing to be complicit because they hate the industry being sued.’

Mexico’s amici take shots at our brief in Smith and Wesson v. Mexico

In Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, the Mexican government is suing several of the most popular American firearm manufacturers in an attempt to hold them liable for violence committed by Mexican drug cartels in Mexico. The Mexican government seeks billions of dollars in damages and the imposition of extensive gun controls in America.

This post is coauthored with Joseph Greenlee, who is a research associate at the Independence Institute (where I work) and Director of the Office of Litigation Counsel for the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action.

We filed an amicus brief on behalf of the National Rifle Association, FPC Action Foundation, and Independence Institute in support of the American manufacturers. The State of Montana, joined by 25 more states, filed a brief as well. In response to these two briefs, a group of social science, medical, and legal scholars supporting the Mexican government joined a brief filed by Crowell & Moring aimed at refuting our claims. This post addresses their arguments.

By David Kopel

Wyoming’s gun-free zones repealed as governor lets bill become law

One of the worst things ATF has ever done

"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.)