“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

Gun Controllers Knew the Assault Weapons Ban Failed in 2004 and They Know It Now

by Doris Wise Montrose on September 22, 2024

“And in classic case of unintended consequences, the 1994 “assault weapons” ban is probably what made the AR15 the most popular rifle in the country.”

Marking the recent anniversary of the Clinton “assault weapons” ban, I circled back to McWhirter and Elinson’s American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15. The chapter on the halfhearted efforts to renew the expiring 1994 “asault weapon” ban is fascinating.

While the ban probably was never going to be renewed in the 2004 political environment, the book explains that a major reason renewal was DOA was that gun control groups didn’t think the ban had worked…and rightly so. More AR-15s and similar rifles were made during the ban than before it. They were just made in ban-compliant formats.

Police groups which had allied with gun control groups to pass the ban in 1994 didn’t lend their support to a renewal in 2004 because they saw for themselves that the ban didn’t work. Major gun control activists ultimately decided it wasn’t worth using their limited resources and political capital to fight for a renewal.

By Kostas Moros

Obama-Appointed Judge: Short-Barreled Rifles and Machine Guns Not Protected by Second Amendment

Where Is Your Home-Defense Gun?

"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.)