“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

DOJ Second Amendment Section Extends Protections to Only ‘Law-Abiding American Citizens

by Doris Wise Montrose on December 18, 2025

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of [the law abiding people] to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) appeared to set a limit on the scope of who enjoys gun rights.

The DOJ just officially updated its Civil Rights Division’s website to include a new section dedicated to the Second Amendment. In the section’s mission statement, the DOJ seemingly weighed in on who is and isn’t included in “the people” who have the right to keep and bear arms. The statement repeatedly refers only to protecting the rights of “law-abiding American citizens.”

“The 2^nd, 4^th, and 14^th Amendments, the Police Pattern or Practice Act, and EO 14206 ‘Protecting Second Amendment Rights’ secure the natural firearm rights of law-abiding American citizens and ensure that such rights to keep and bear arms will not be infringed,” the DOJ website said. “The mission of the 2^nd Amendment Section is to ensure that law-abiding American citizens may responsibly possess, carry, and use firearms.”

The repeated use of the language puts the DOJ at the center of a heated post-Bruen legal fight over the radius of Second Amendment protections and suggests it may take a relatively restrictive view of the amendment’s scope. The launch of the DOJ section has been widely praised by gun-rights advocates, but the language could prove to be a sticking point down the line.

By Stephen Gutowski

Thousands of Australian Guns are Destroyed 1997

The DOJ Says It Will Challenge Unconstitutional Gun Policies. Maybe It Should Stop Defending Them.

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