“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

26 GOP States Sue ATF for Unconstitutionally Regulating Private Firearms Sales

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 2, 2024

Texas and Kansas are leading two multi-state lawsuits against a new ATF rule that would criminalize private firearm sales, arguing it is illegal, unconstitutional, and violates congressional intent, Second Amendment rights, and due process.

A total of 26 Republican states filed three separate lawsuits against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the U.S. Department of Justice, and their corresponding leaders over the Biden administration’s new gun-control rule that will regulate the private selling and purchasing of firearms.

Each federal lawsuit, filed Wednesday, argues the ATF rule violates the Second Amendment by placing undue gun restrictions on American citizens. According to the rule, any person who sells a gun for profit to anyone else, including family members, would be considered “engaged in the business” of dealing in firearms. Therefore, a private seller would be required to obtain a federal firearms license and conduct a background check before making a transaction. Those who violate the rule’s provisions would be considered felons.

Kansas attorney general Kris Kobach and Texas attorney general Ken Paxton led two multistate lawsuits, while Florida attorney general Ashley Moody filed her own.

By David Zimmermann

Guns confiscated from anti-Israel protesters at UT Austin, University of South Florida

South Carolinian faced 115 years in prison until ATF admitted they got the wrong man

"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.)