“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."

Day: December 31, 2025

Commentary

The Handgun Remains Your Primary Weapon: Even Against Terrorists

by Doris Wise Montrose on December 31, 2025

Most reading this article are likely aware of the horrendous terrorist attack on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, which claimed sixteen lives, that transpired several days prior to this writing. As is no surprise, the Australian government, which has allowed unvetted immigration from problematic regions, now proposes cracking down even harder on guns, in a country

Second Amendment

Trump DOJ Says the Second Amendment Protects Guns, But Not Knives

by Doris Wise Montrose on December 31, 2025

The phrase “shall not be infringed” has a way of revealing who actually believes it — and who only supports it when it is politically convenient. That tension is now on full display inside the Trump Administration itself. While the Department of Justice has aggressively challenged gun control laws in blue states and territories, it

Second Amendment

Tyranny Surcharge: Let’s Add Up How Much More Californians Pay to Exercise Their Gun Rights

by Doris Wise Montrose on December 31, 2025

“In total, then, factoring in the price difference of a California-compliant version of a typical gun, the background check fee, the excise tax, and the price of the Firearms Safety Certificate, a new gun owner will pay $252.58 more for their Walther PDP compact than they would in most other states thanks to California’s hostility

Commentary

The Quiet Vigilance: Jewish Gun Ownership and the Weight of History

by Doris Wise Montrose on December 31, 2025

Why discretion, preparation, and voting are essential to preserving our rights Gun enthusiasts and supporters shaped by the history of the Holocaust do not define themselves by a specific country. We come from no single nation, but we carry a history that makes clear the consequences of an unarmed population. That history instills a sober

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