“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

Star 6 Crash, 20 Years Later (A warning to Sig)

by Doris Wise Montrose on July 22, 2025

“20 years ago, a preventable helicopter crash claimed two lives and left one permanently injured due to a known defective part. This tragedy fuels the author’s outrage toward companies like Sig, which prioritize profits over safety.”

20 years ago today, 7-13-2005, two of my coworkers, Kevin Blount and Joe Kievernagel, were killed and another, Eric Henrikson, received severe life altering injuries, when our helicopter, Star 6 crashed.

I did not know Joe, but Kevin was and Eric is a friend of mine.

The helicopter, a Eurocopter EC120, suffered a catastrophic engine failure due to a faulty fuel pressure regulator.

The fuel pressure regulator issue was something Eurocopter knew about, but chose to take the Ford Pinto route. They figured it would be cheaper to repair the helicopters that broke rather than recall all the faulty regulators. They figured pilots would have enough altitude to safely autorotate down if and when they failed.

By Matt Silvey

Sig M18 Pistols Pulled From Use By Air Force Global Strike Command

I Like Guns - Steve Lee sings a catchy diddy we can hum all day

"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.)