“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."

Month: January 2026

Second Amendment

Supreme Court Prepares Major Gun‑Rights Showdown

by Doris Wise Montrose on January 6, 2026

The Supreme Court’s duty is to uphold the Constitution, and if it ruled in a way that infringed the Second Amendment’s clear guarantee of the right to keep and bear arms, it would exceed its authority and risk undermining its own legitimacy. The Supreme Court will soon consider whether to take up dozens of Second

Commentary

Military Gun Training in Polish Schools

by Doris Wise Montrose on January 6, 2026

I would change the title to “Poles Learned a Lesson From Their Own Playbook”. My parents were Holocaust survivors from Poland. The Poles disarmed Jews and enabled their mass extermination of virtually the entire Jewish population of Poland. Poland’s firearms training today reflects a bitter lesson learned from its own actions: disarming a population has

Commentary

What Israel Learned From October 7 That America Still Hasn’t Learned From 9/11

by Doris Wise Montrose on January 6, 2026

Before this turns into an argument about Israeli gun laws—read carefully. Yes, Israel has restrictive firearms policies. I don’t like them either. But turning this article into a lecture about what Israel should do according to American standards misses the point entirely. Israel is not America. Different constitution. Different legal culture. Different assumptions about the role of

Commentary

Training vs. Conditioning: The Subconscious Impact of Target Design

by Doris Wise Montrose on January 6, 2026

Every repetition, dry or live, is either building good habits or reinforcing bad ones. That applies not only to technique, but to the stimuli we expose ourselves to, including the anatomical realism (or lack thereof) of the targets we train on. The scoring zones on many traditional qualification targets are often misplaced anatomically: mapped to

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