“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

Senate Parliamentarian Accepts New HPA and SHORT Act Language

by Doris Wise Montrose on July 1, 2025

I highly recommend reading John Crump’s article in its entirety. My take? The outcome was always the goal from the start: eliminate a meaningless tax, make it look like a win, and call it a day. Once again, we’re expected to swallow another so-called “compromise.” And that’s exactly how we keep losing our rights.

The Senate Parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, has approved the language in the reconciliation bill to lower the tax stamp fee for short-barreled rifles (SBRs), short-barreled shotguns (SBSs), any other weapons (AOWs), and suppressors from $200 to $0.

The change of the language was made after MacDonough, a Democrat, rejected the inclusion of the Hearing Protection Act (HPA) and the Stop Harassing Rifle Owners Today (SHORT) Act. Republicans originally wanted SBRs, SBSs, AOWs, and suppressors to be wholly removed from the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA), but the Parliamentarian rejected the proposal, saying it violated the Byrd Rule.

The Byrd Rule says that policy issues cannot be changed through reconciliation. Only tax and budget issues can be addressed because of the lack of a filibuster. The Byrd Rule was named after former KKK member and Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV). Hillary Clinton called Byrd her “mentor” after the Senator died.

By John Crump

Paste Faster, Not Harder: My Review of the Paster Pooper Paster Gun

"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.)