“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

Metaphor Alert: Secret Service Agent Shoots Himself in DC Negligent Discharge

by Doris Wise Montrose on September 22, 2024

Reholstering in the bathroom.

The US Secret Service has been in a long, slow decline for years. Jump into the Wayback Machine and set it for 2012. Here we are, down Cartagena way, where a bunch of agents engaged a score of Colombian hookers for a night of fun, frivolity, and sexually transmitted diseases.

That, however, was just one example. There have been plenty of agency screw-ups over the years that leaked into public view such as accepting questionable gifts, casually tossed grenades, uninvited guests and assorted undetected fence-jumpers at the White House. None of the failures, however, were quite so high-profile as the Butler, Pennsylvania shooting of President Trump in which he was wound and a bystander was killed.

Oh, and then there was the more recent second attempt to shoot Trump at his golf course in West Palm Beach.

All in all, given the agency’s long, sorry-ass track record of conspicuous (non)performance, last night’s incident in northwest DC probably shouldn’t really surprise anyone. While few details are known, a Secret Service public information officer has confirmed that one of the agency’s finest accidentally shot himself.

By Dan Zimmerman

Where Is Your Home-Defense Gun?

Zen And The Art Of Combat Pistol Shooting

"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.)