“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

Gun Control Groups Admit They’re ‘Crushed’ and ‘Devastated’ by Trump Victory

by Doris Wise Montrose on November 9, 2024

“Crushed” and “devastated” are good here. Trump will appoint judges that are likely to support the constitution. Vance is a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. He must disabuse Trump of his previous support of red flag laws and bump stock bans.

Donald Trump’s sweeping victory is a major setback for the anti-gun activists working to dismantle our Second Amendment rights, and they know it.

On X.com, Moms Demand Action executive director Angela Ferrell-Zabala admitted that the organization is “crushed” by Trump’s win, while vowing to “organize like our lives depend on it.”

They can “fight like hell” to keep their anti-civil rights mission going, but they can’t do a thing to stop Trump from dismantling the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, de-weaponizing the ATF, and appointing federal judges who understand that the right to keep and bear arms is just as important and fundamental as every other enumerated right in the Constitution.

Everytown for Gun Safety, meanwhile, declared Trump’s win “devastating” to their agenda.

By Cam Edwards

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How Gun Groups Fared as Trump, GOP Swept to Victory

"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.)