“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."

Commentary

Prosecutors: Baldwin ‘Violated Decades-Old Gun Safety Rules’

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 23, 2024

Actor and anti-gun activist Alec Baldwin is in hot water.

The armorer for the film Rust has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and yet he is the one who pulled the trigger. He can claim the gun just went off, but it didn’t.

Now, he’s facing his own trial, so his attorneys did what attorneys do. They tried to get the entire case thrown out.

That means the prosecution had to respond. They had to show there was a valid reason for the trial to continue.

And boy did they.

By Tom Knighton

The New York Times Implausibly Blames 'Looser' Gun Laws for a Homicide Spike That Is Now Receding

"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.)

Prosecutors: Baldwin ‘Violated Decades-Old Gun Safety Rules’

VERY RARE 2A HISTORY: The Late Justice Scalia reading in his own words the Heller Win from the SCOTUS Bench in 2008.

The New York Times Implausibly Blames 'Looser' Gun Laws for a Homicide Spike That Is Now Receding