“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

Up with the People

by Doris Wise Montrose on December 6, 2020

“And with these few guns, the course of Jewish history would change.”

It is certain that when NBC decided to produce its miniseries Uprising about the Warsaw ghetto revolt, no one was thinking about Osama bin Laden. Yet the airing of this docudrama, which is based on a true, and truly heroic story, may have a special cultural resonance because of what America has experienced in the past months.

The Nazis, of course, enjoyed powers far exceeding those of bin Laden and his Islamo-fascist allies. Nonetheless, they suffered a defeat in the Warsaw ghetto revolt at the hands of a relative handful of poorly armed and untrained Jews, much as bin Laden’s hijackers on board United Airlines Flight 93 suffered a defeat at the hands of that flight’s unarmed and untrained passengers.

The Warsaw ghetto was one of many such communities organized at the Nazis’ command in order to facilitate the centralization, starvation, transportation, and extermination of Jews throughout Europe. Jews went in, but they did not come out, except to board trains to destinations like Treblinka, the death camp to which Warsaw’s Jews were sent. Though many were aware that this was the Nazis’ goal, most were at first unwilling to resist, preferring to believe the hollow reassurances of the Nazi occupation authorities and their collaborationist government. Surely, they thought, something so monstrous could not really happen.

By Dave Kopel, research director, Independence Institute, and Glenn Reynolds, InstaPundit.com.

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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.)