“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

Arizona rated best state for CCW – again!

by Doris Wise Montrose on August 15, 2020

My state. Where I escaped to from California. Because of this.

In the September 2020 issue of Guns and Ammo, Arizona is rated the best state for concealed carry. This is the EIGHTH consecutive year Guns and Ammo magazine has rated Arizona as the #1 state for gun owners.

For 2020, state concealed carry laws were evaluated on:

Permit issuance
Reciprocity/recognition
Training requirements
Permit fees
Castle Doctrine
Duty to inform law-enforcement
Firearms preemption laws
Non-resident permit issuance
Prior Guns and Ammo “Best State” ratings

Once again, Arizona was rated #1. Quoting from the article:

Arizona issues permits though it doesn’t require them for concealed carry if you are over 21. Open carry is legal at the age of 18. Arizona managed to score top marks in every category we used for this evaluation, and also does well in the intangible categories such as locations where carry is prohibited. Permits, when they are desired, cost $60 for the first 5 years and $43 for subsequent renewals. Since it does not require a permit, it gets a full 5 points in the fee category regardless of the permit’s costs. Guns locked out of sight in privately owned vehicles, including motorcycles, cannot be prohibited by property owners or employers, whether public or private. As far as CCW goes, AZ is about as good as it gets.

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"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 or mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece, as the Militia Act required here. ... If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars." — Silveira v Lockyer, (9th Cir. 2003) (Kozinski, J. dissenting.)