“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."

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Firearm, fossil fuel boycotts prohibited under Iowa investment strategy bill

by Doris Wise Montrose on February 27, 2023

The bill targets investment strategies which involve boycotting the gun and ammunition, fossil fuel, mining, timber and agricultural industries.

Companies managing state funds could not factor social causes into their investment strategies if legislation moved forward by an Iowa Senate panel is signed into law.

The bill targets ESG investment strategies, in which investment firms take into account “environmental, social and governance factors” when deciding where to invest money. Senate Study Bill 1094 would prohibit the state from entering into contracts for public fund investments with companies that prioritize social investments or boycotts of certain companies when investing money.

A Senate subcommittee advanced the bill Tuesday.

Investment and banking companies could not limit opportunities for gun and ammunition manufacturers, fossil fuel energy companies, or mining, timber and agricultural producers. Additionally, the bill limits “nonpecuniary social investments,” or investing strategies that considers the impacts of businesses on the environment or in social and political spheres over maximizing returns.

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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.)