“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

The ATF Problem Is Bigger Than Party Politics

by Doris Wise Montrose on June 7, 2026

Republican and Democratic administrations alike have expanded, defended, or tolerated an agency many Americans view as a continuing threat to civil liberties and the Second Amendment.

While many gun owners believe Democratic administrations are the worst offenders when it comes to ATF overreach, Republican administrations have often done little to reverse or restrain the agency’s power. In some cases, Republicans expanded it.

Under Ronald Reagan, the 1986 Hughes Amendment froze the civilian machine gun registry, permanently banning new transferable machine guns for ordinary Americans. Under George H.W. Bush, the ATF imposed the 1989 import ban on many semiautomatic rifles using the vague “sporting purposes” standard. Under George W. Bush, ATF enforcement and firearms tracing operations continued to expand as part of broader federal law enforcement growth after 9/11.

During Donald Trump’s administration, the ATF reversed prior determinations and banned bump stocks through executive action rather than legislation, turning previously lawful owners into potential felons overnight. Trump also publicly endorsed the idea of taking guns first and dealing with due process later, alarming many civil libertarians and Second Amendment advocates.

By Doris Wise

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