“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

Should a Bad Check Negate a Right for the Rest of Your Life?

by Doris Wise Montrose on June 21, 2025

Permanently stripping nonviolent felons of their Second Amendment rights is an overly harsh and unconstitutional penalty, especially for those who have reformed. This case could establish a fair precedent, ensuring that rehabilitated individuals regain their full constitutional protections.

In a legal showdown that could have sweeping implications for nonviolent offenders across the United States, the NRA and other pro-freedom groups are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case of a Utah woman who lost her gun rights nearly two decades ago for passing a bad check.

Melynda Vincent, now in her 40s, was convicted of a nonviolent felony 17 years ago. The offense? Writing a bad check for $498. Since then, she has turned her life around. Yet, under federal law, she remains permanently barred from owning a firearm. Vincent is now petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and restore her rights, citing the constitutional protections in the Second Amendment.

The NRA, along with the Second Amendment Foundation, Firearms Policy Coalition and FPC Action Foundation, filed an amicus brief on her behalf, urging the high court to take up the case. The pro-freedom argument is clear: the government has no constitutional basis to strip peaceful citizens of their right to keep and bear arms simply because of a long-ago, nonviolent offense.

By Susanne Edward

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"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.)