“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

Federal Judge Rules Illegal Aliens can Own Guns

by Doris Wise Montrose on March 28, 2024

Lots of discussion on this ruling in our community. What is the exact meaning of “the People” in the Second Amendment.

U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman ruled earlier this month that an illegal alien can not be charged for carrying a loaded firearm. What can go wrong?

Judge Coleman is an Obama appointee and a liberal judge in Illinois. An illegal alien, Heriberto Carbajal-Flores, was charged with carrying a loaded gun. In her ruling, Judge Coleman said, ‘The noncitizen possession statute, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5), violates the Second Amendment as applied to Carbajal-Flores.’Thus, the court grants Carbajal-Flores’ motion to dismiss.’

Carbajal-Flores’ defense team posed the argument that the government could not show that 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5) was ‘part of the historical tradition that delimits the outer bounds of the right to keep and bear arms.’

In 2022, the Supreme Court ruled that government prosecutors must be able to show that regulations are ‘consistent with this nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.’

The arguments presented by defense lawyers were enough to convince the judge that the charges should be dismissed. She referred to him as a “noncitizen” and nothing else. She said she shies away from harsher language. Really? The term used in the Constitution is illegal alien. Does that offend her delicate sensibilities?

By Karen Townsend

Gun Banners Step Up Programming of TV/Movie Audiences with #SHOWGUNSAFETY Campaign

Is it a weapon problem like firearms, or is it a person with evil intent?

"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.)