“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

Gun ‘Silencer’ Ruling Suppresses Second Amendment Protections

by Doris Wise Montrose on April 2, 2025

This is what I’m waiting for: “Under Trump, the DOJ should reverse course, request the court grant Peterson’s petition for rehearing en banc, and follow through on Trump’s promises to be a champion for Second Amendment rights.” Specifically, Trump’s promise to be a champion for Second Amendment rights.

Five federal courts, including the usually conservative US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, have upheld restrictions on making or purchasing silencers for firearms since 2018. These decisions could greenlight gun-grabbing regulations across a variety of components—sights, optics, stocks, and trigger guards—needed for the full exercise of one’s right to bear arms.

US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas once called the Second Amendment a “constitutional orphan,” referring to lower courts consistently refusing to give it due deference as an enumerated right. Meanwhile, the Fifth Circuit in February joined four other courts in repeating the mistake Thomas identified in 2018 and left components essential to gun rights unprotected.

The Second Amendment must be read to protect guns themselves, as well as related items inherent to their safe and proficient use, such as noise suppressors.

By Mark Smith

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

Attacking U.S. Gun Laws Because of Haitian Gangs is Right Out of the Prohibitionist Playbook

"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.)