“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."

Commentary

Defenseless in the Holy Land

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 18, 2024

Lessons for Americans from Israel’s Gun Laws

Will the events in Israel change opinions on gun control in the United States? Will the stories and images of citizens left defenseless cause Americans to rethink support for gun control measures? The situation in Israel stands as a warning of what can happen when citizens are heavily regulated and stripped of their natural rights to self-defense.

Israel has strict gun regulations, which include an assault-weapons ban and compulsory registration of gun ownership with the government.

Be either an Israeli citizen or a permanent resident with at least three consecutive years of residency.
Have basic proficiency in Hebrew.
Undergo a health assessment.
Meet age criteria: 27 for non-military service citizens, 21 for veterans, and 45 for non-citizen permanent residents.
Prove they have a secure storage place at home for the firearm.
Demonstrate a genuine reason for firearm possession.
Complete a thorough background check, encompassing criminal, health, and mental evaluations.
Finish a weapons-training course.

By Elliot Pierce

WHAT COULD AMERICAN-STYLE GUN CULTURE DO TO ISRAEL?

Gun Ownership: A Shift in American Jewish Thought

"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.)