“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.”

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

A Billion Records and a Familiar Pattern

by Doris Wise Montrose on April 19, 2026

Disarmament didn’t begin with confiscation. It began with information.

My parents survived the Holocaust.

The lesson I grew up with wasn’t complicated:

Before persecution, there are always lists.

A recent report from AmmoLand News describes Senate testimony claiming the ATF now holds nearly one billion firearm records, with roughly 94% digitized and searchable in some form.

The agency maintains that this is not a registry.
Legally, that may be true.

Historically, that distinction matters less than people think.

Because history does not judge systems by what they are called.
It judges them by what they become.

By Doris Wise

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