“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."

Commentary

Nice Jewish Boys Carrying Concealed Guns

by Doris Wise Montrose on February 22, 2026

I can’t believe I missed this excellent article published by Aish two years ago!
“Whenever you are carrying a gun,” [the rabbi advised me] “you are fulfilling several mitzvot, commandments. ‘Guard your life’ by protecting yourself, and ‘love your neighbor’ for protecting others. You’re not a Rambo. You’re a Jew engaged in doing important mitzvot.”

I never had anything to do with guns. They weren’t on the radar.

All that changed two years ago when the United States Supreme Court ruled that individual states could not restrict individual citizens’ right to carry guns. Maybe it was the “forbidden fruit” opportunity to do something which my deep-blue state had kept me from doing for so many years, or maybe I had an unconscious foreboding of what was to come, but I soon found myself sitting in a concealed carry gun class, listening to an Israeli expat tell us all about when we could draw our weapons.

I barely passed the course which included a trip to a local gun range, but soon enough, I had my permit. Shortly afterwards, a small Glock semi-automatic, with a matching “tuckable” holster, found itself occasionally on my hip. Ongoing visits to the firing range improved my accuracy. (I don’t think I’ll ever be a sharpshooter.)

Mentioning my accomplishment to a few friends at shul revealed an interest to start a concealed carry group. We went to our Rabbi, who, much to my surprise, gave the project his okay. Within a month, a dozen members were sitting in the shul’s social hall watching PowerPoint presentations at a concealed carry class led by the owner of the security company.

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