“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

How Gun Groups Fared as Trump, GOP Swept to Victory

by Doris Wise Montrose on November 9, 2024

Results are still coming in and will be for a few more days, but many of the topline takeaways from Tuesday’s election are becoming clear as the uncalled races dwindle.

Donald Trump won the Presidency in a convincing fashion, likely winning the popular vote for the first time in three tries. Republicans retook control of the Senate with what’s likely to be a fairly slim majority. They will probably also hold onto control of the House, with even slimmer margins than the Senate.

As of Thursday afternoon, the Associated Press, which has been fastest to call the upper chamber races, has Republicans on track to land between 53 and 55 Senate seats–with Democrat Ruben Gallego currently ahead in Arizona and Jacky Rosen up in Nevada. Thus far, Democrats have been unable to hold their Senate seats in Red states, but Republicans have seen only limited success in the major swing states despite Trump sweeping them. Decision Desk HQ, which has been fastest to call lower chamber races, still has 22 House races up for grabs but projects Republicans will add a single seat to their current paper-thin majority.

The major gun groups that spent big money in those federal races faired very differently, with the National Rifle Association (NRA) outperforming the gun-control groups despite being outraised and outspent.

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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.)