“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

Grand Rapids Mayor Takes Cover After Saying Gun Owners Should be Ashamed

by Doris Wise Montrose on March 1, 2026

“I took to heart the Mayor’s comment on self-reflection as a gun owner. After serious private consideration, I have reached the conclusion that Socialist Democrats cannot provide adequate leadership to even a sanitation department of a city without their overwhelming need to control what people do. I am again struck by the arrogance in assuming that only they, with their infinite wisdom, can determine what is correct in everyday life. This attitude of superiority and elitism was the reason for the foundation of American independence. As to the serious conversation he speaks of, he has forgotten that it has already taken place. It was 250 years ago. His side lost.”

One day after Grand Rapids, Michigan Mayor David LaGrand initially ran for cover after stating during a public meeting Monday evening that gun owners should be ashamed—initially telling a reporter through a spokesperson that he “respectfully declines to be interviewed” about the controversy—he issued a lengthy statement in an effort to justify his remarks.

A video of LaGrand making the comments has gone viral across social media. The Democrat mayor was not reserved about his feelings toward gun owners.

In the video, Mayor LaGrand stated, “Nobody gardens with a gun, right? Nobody changes their tire with a gun. What they’re for is killing human beings and so it’s really hard. I think as a community we have to start having some shaming around gun possession. I think if you’ve got a gun, you should be ashamed of yourself. I really do.”

“Now, I’m sorry, that’s gonna be the soundbite of the night,” he continued, “and the NRA, the NRA is gonna be mad at me, but like, you know, I, I get that we got a Second Amendment, I get it. But, you know, you also should be ashamed of yourself if you smoke. That’s not against the law. I think if you own a gun, you should be ashamed of yourself, and you should really do some self-reflection. And I think that’s, I, I just see so much more harm just like cigarettes. I see so much harm, more harm done than benefit.”

By Dave Workman

What Gunsmoke Understood That We Still Refuse to Admit

MN House Public Safety 2/24/26: Amy Swearer testifies against the gun ban bills (Video)

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