“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

Gun Groups’ Warm Welcome for Trump’s Proposed ATF Head is Premature

by Doris Wise Montrose on November 30, 2025

“Nominations Sent to the Senate,” the November 18 “Presidential Actions” statement on The White House website announces, leading off the list with: “Robert Cekada, of Florida, to be Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.”

Who he would nominate has been a source for speculation since before President Donald Trump took office after his definitive 2022 victory, especially since he owed much of his successful campaigns — both times that he was elected — to gun owners taking him at his word for his pledges to support the Second Amendment.

He disappointed them in his first term nominating former Fraternal Order of Police President Chuck Canterbury in 2019, a man who presided over a group that had opposed “Constitutional carry” (they still do), and supported expansion of federal gun laws as well as anti-gun power players like Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and former Attorney General Eric Holder of Operation Fast and Furious “gunwalking” notoriety.

By David Codrea

New Yorkers Are Finally Learning How Hard the City Makes Gun Ownership

What Americans need to hear. Canada’s Gun Confiscation, Up Close: A Warning

"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.)