“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

Gun rights are the real Commerce Clause

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 18, 2023

This is a harder question than it seems:

There are lots of silly or intrusive laws criminalizing personal behavior. So when a particular example of such a law doesn’t exist, “it’s too silly or intrusive” isn’t a very powerful explanation. The question is what, process-wise, has blocked it.

This answer (endorsement of the underlying idea aside) seems most plausible:

You need two things to pass a law that restricts individuals’ behavior:

The consensus around the ban needs to hit activation energy. A public relations push, some catalyzing event, etc. Supporters need to decide that this ban is worth the effort.
The bill needs to clear the procedural hurdles of becoming law.

By Open Source Defense

“BOSS, CAN I CARRY WHILE I’M WORKING?”

"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.)

Gun rights are the real Commerce Clause

NBC pushing fake news about America’s rifle, again

“BOSS, CAN I CARRY WHILE I’M WORKING?”