“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.”

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."

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2023 Originalism Symposium Panel #4: The Second Amendment After Bruen (VIDEO)

by Doris Wise Montrose on April 2, 2025

The Federalist Society at UVA Law’s “The Second Amendment After Bruen: The Relationship Between Originalism, History & Tradition” panel with Professor Robert Leider of Antonin Scalia Law School and Professor Mark W. Smith of The King’s College that took place April 26, 2023. This informative and engaging video is well worth your time to get insight into Robert Leider who is now Assistant Director and Chief Counsel at ATF.

Full disclosure: I’m a big fan of Mark W. Smith.

Gun 'Silencer' Ruling Suppresses Second Amendment Protections

"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.)

2023 Originalism Symposium Panel #4: The Second Amendment After Bruen (VIDEO)

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Gun 'Silencer' Ruling Suppresses Second Amendment Protections