“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 Confiscation Came First: How Disarming Colonists Led to Revolution

by Doris Wise Montrose on January 6, 2026

Gun confiscation wasn’t a side issue of the American Revolution. It was a catalyst. Repeated attempts to seize arms and intimidate an armed population convinced the colonies that liberty couldn’t survive without the means to defend it. The Founders enshrined the right to keep and bear arms because history had already shown what happens when governments try to disarm their people.

The story of the American Revolution is often simplified to April 19, 1775; Lexington and Concord, the “shot heard ’round the world,” and war between colonial militias and British regulars. But by the time musket fire echoed across Massachusetts, the conflict had been smoldering for years.

Long before independence was declared, the fight was already underway over a fundamental question: whether free people could remain armed.

Disarmament Came Before the Shooting

The British effort to control the colonies did not begin with battlefield engagements. It began with policies. By 1768, as resistance to taxation without representation, warrantless searches, and arbitrary rule grew, British officials identified armed colonists as a problem to be addressed.

By Scott Witner

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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.)