“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

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 to the Second Amendment. Even subtracting $25 if they already have an FSC, that’s about 42 percent more to exercise the same enumerated civil right as Americans pay in most of the rest of the country.”

As a bit of a sneak preview of an upcoming amicus brief I’m working on for the Second Amendment Foundation, let’s take a look at how much more it costs to buy a handgun in California compared to most of the rest of the country using a Walther PDP compact pistol as an example.

As you can see above, a standard PDP compact with a 15-round magazine retails for $530 on Bass Pro’s website.

But Bass Pro also lets you select the California-compliant model instead, which comes with the state-mandated loaded chamber indicator, magazine disconnect mechanism, and 10-round limited capacity magazines. Those unwanted but required “features” turn a $530 gun into a $650 gun.

That’s an additional $120, but wait…we’re only just getting started.

By Kostas Moros

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

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

"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.)