“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."

Commentary

Canada Asks Gun Owners Why They Won’t Comply With Struggling AR-15 Buyback Program

by Doris Wise Montrose on July 22, 2025

The Canadian Government has commissioned a study, hoping to figure out why gun owners may not want to turn in their recently banned firearms.

A newly publicized study aimed at assessing how Canada can increase participation in their gun buyback program revealed internal skepticism that the program will be successful once expanded to individuals. Canada’s mandatory gun buyback program, which was first passed five years ago, has blown past original spending estimates while collecting only 12,195 of the estimated hundreds of thousands of recently banned “assault-style” firearms. Commissioning of the study shows the government is concerned gun owner sentiment towards the program may be so negative that its soon-to-be expansion to individuals is likely to face strong resistance.

“The Government of Canada believes it is unlikely to be the most trusted messenger with individuals who own assault-style firearms,” a methodology statement for the study said. “As such, the program faces a risk of non-compliance stemming from psychological, physical, and logistical barriers. A deeper understanding of the various motivations of owners (financial, cultural, recreational, safety-driven, etc.) will help the Government to address these barriers.”

By Benjamin Owen

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