“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

First federal trial over Illinois assault weapon ban begins

by Doris Wise Montrose on September 22, 2024

What exactly is an “assault” weapon? Blanket infringement on the Second Amendment. Infringing on the Second Amendment is the goal of every “gun control” effort.

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (CN) — Gun owners and advocates challenged Illinois’ ban on assault weapons and extended ammunition magazines in a federal bench trial which began Monday in southern Illinois. They claim the bans violate the Second Amendment.

The plaintiffs in the four combined lawsuits — including state residents, gun retailers and Second Amendment advocacy groups like the Illinois State Rifle Association — accuse Illinois, Governor J.B. Pritzker and multiple state police agencies of unconstitutionally enforcing the ban.

“Because modern semiautomatic rifles and the hundreds of other arms banned under HB 5471 are arms in common use today, they are protected by the Second Amendment, full stop, rendering Illinois’ effort to flatly ban them flatly unconstitutional,” the plaintiffs wrote in their initial complaint.

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"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.)