“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."

Month: May 2025

Second Amendment

The GOSAFE Act: A Dangerous Step Toward Disarming Law-Abiding Americans

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 7, 2025

The GOSAFE Act: A Dangerous Step Toward Disarming Law-Abiding Americans In a recent article published by Firearms News, author Darwin Nercesian, GOSAFE Act Introduced to Ban Semi-Automatic Firearms with Detachable Magazines, breaks down the deeply troubling implications of the so-called GOSAFE Act—a federal bill introduced by Senators Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Angus King (I-ME), Mark Kelly (D-AZ),

Second Amendment

In Support of Rep. Eric Burlison’s Bold Efforts to Defend Our Second Amendment Rights

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 5, 2025

At Jews Can Shoot, our mission is grounded in the belief that an armed and trained citizenry is the ultimate defense against tyranny. History, especially Jewish history, offers tragic lessons about what happens when citizens are disarmed by their own governments. That is why I, Doris Wise, founder of Jews Can Shoot, wholeheartedly support Congressman

"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.)