“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

Thune’s Election as Senate Majority Leader Good News for Gun Owners

by Doris Wise Montrose on November 16, 2024

We have yet to learn if this is true. But I hope it is.

Senate Republicans selected South Dakota’s John Thune as their new leader on Wednesday, easing the concerns of some Second Amendment advocates who’d expressed reservations about the other two candidates in the mix for the job.

As my colleague Tom Knighton wrote earlier today, the other candidates vying for the vacant position after Mitch McConnell announced he’d be stepping down as the GOP leader in the Senate have some black marks in their background regarding Second Amendment issues.

It would be unfair to label either Texas Sen. John Cornyn or Rick Scott as full-blown gun-grabbers, but Cornyn was one of the prime sponsors and dealmakers behind the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act that was signed into law by Joe Biden two years ago.

By Cam Edwards

Federal Court Greenlights Colorado’s Gun Ban for Young Adults: A Dangerous Precedent for 2nd Amendment Rights?

Huffington Post Inadvertently Outlines Why Gun Owners Chose Trump

"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.)