“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

Supreme Court Justices Express Skepticism at Hawaii’s Gun-Carry Restrictions in Oral Arguments

by Doris Wise Montrose on January 23, 2026

The nation’s top court appeared doubtful that the Aloha State’s expansive gun-carry ban is compatible with the Second Amendment.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) held oral arguments in Wolford v. Lopez. That’s the case that challenges Hawaii’s law that reverses the typical presumption and requires those with concealed carry permits to obtain permission from owners before carrying on publicly accessible private property. While the three Democratic appointees seemed convinced of the law’s validity, the six Republican appointees appeared to be highly skeptical of it.

“Mr. Katyal, you’re just relegating the Second Amendment to second-class status,” Justice Samuel Alito said to Hawaii’s lead counsel Neal Katyal. “I don’t see how you can get away from that.”

The outcome of the case will have a significant impact on where people can legally carry firearms, not just in Hawaii, where plaintiffs claim the rule helps make more than 95 percent off limits, but also in the half dozen other states that have either passed or considered similar laws since SCOTUS handed down 2022’s New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen. As with Bruen, which greatly expanded the issuance of concealed carry permits, Wolford has the potential to substantially change Second Amendment jurisprudence by further refining the history-and-tradition test SCOTUS set forth in that case. What the majority decides could implicate rules for where licensed carriers can take their guns and for what kinds of restrictions governments can place on the keeping and bearing of arms.

By Stephen Gutowski

Wolford v. Lopez: Why the Supreme Court’s Latest 2nd Amendment Case Risks Missing the Real Threat

Aloha Akbar!!! The Absurdities In Hawaii’s Attempted Logic Bombing of the Second Amendment

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