“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

Why Teachers Should Be Armed: Lessons from ‘First 30 Seconds’

by Doris Wise Montrose on September 13, 2025

It’s never a good time for stories like this. But it’s good to have a plan for when, not if, it happens again. As pro-gun folks with carry permits, we know it could happen to us. But we hope and pray it doesn’t. But we plan in case it does. It is time for schools to wake up and make serious plans for an active shooter situation.

Last fall, I had a chance to interview Ed Monk of Last Resort Firearms Training. Monk spent 24 years in the Army before taking a job in a public high school in Kentucky. Before his first year of school started, he learned the protocol for an active shooter at that school was to close the doors and huddle the students into a corner away from the door. He realized from his Army training that the opposite of what a group should do is unless they all want to be victims.

Monk has gone on to study mass shootings, whether they happen in schools, shopping malls, or churches. He recently published a book on his study called First 30 Seconds, which is available on Amazon.

He’s determined that time and math are the things people need to know and brace for. The longer an active shooter gets to shoot, the more victims there are. Very logical, I know.

By Charlie Cook

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