“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

Understanding the Story Told in New Jersey’s Permit to Carry Dashboard Data

by Doris Wise Montrose on November 30, 2025

The Second Amendment protects an individual, pre-existing right to own and carry firearms, so any government requirement for permission, licensing, or registration, even under the guise of “safety regulations,” constitutes an undue burden and, from a strict textualist perspective, is an unconstitutional form of government gatekeeping.

The State of New Jersey posts monthly data on permit to carry applications, approvals, and denials on a publicly-facing dashboard. At first blush, the numbers can be misleading. With a friend’s help, we dug in to better understand the numbers and paint the full picture.

Looking at the public Permit to Carry Dashboard, the numbers provided don’t tell the full story. There have been a great deal of misinterpretations of the data, including from our publication. With the help of data analyst (and friend to News2A), Stuart Gepp, we took a deeper look and offer our readers a thorough explanation of how to interpret this data.

The Permit to Carry Dashboard posts infographics, like the one below. At first glance, they are impressive. However, these numbers don’t tell the whole story. Let’s start with a few statements of fact.

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"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.)