“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

ATF Warns of Hoax Homeland Security Letter ‘Suspending Second Amendment’

by Doris Wise Montrose on February 9, 2026

Codrea is highlighting that this letter only works as a hoax because a meaningful number of people already believe the government is capable of doing this—or at least flirting with it rhetorically. The letter didn’t appear in a vacuum. It landed in an environment primed for distrust.

“Federal authorities say they are investigating a report about a bogus letter purportedly written by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to at least one Vermont gun store claiming the U.S. Government was temporarily suspending the Second Amendment right to have guns,” the Vermont Daily Chronicle reported Monday.

It goes beyond Vermont. A version of the letter targeted to Houston-area Federal Firearms Licensees is embedded below.

“Constitutional rights are a privilege for American citizens, not a guarantee,” the purported “Notice of Enhanced Protection Policies for Homeland Security Agents,” dated Jan. 26, begins. Citing its purpose “to better safeguard the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during upcoming deployment actions,” it declares, “the United States Government is instituting a temporary suspension of the rights granted by the Second Ammendment [sic] of the United State Constitution.”

Not knowing how to spell “Amendment” is a major clue. It then mandates the FFL and employees to:

By David Codrea

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