“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

‘A shot in the dark’: NRA takes on state gun laws with Trump in its corner

by Jews Can Shoot on May 4, 2017

Tommy Bushnell lifts the AR-15 rifle and aims at his target.

Some of the other shooters in this indoor gun range near the Los Angeles airport are aiming at human-shaped paper targets complete with red internal organs, but Bushnell’s is just a simple outline of a blue man on a white background.

He shoots ten times. But when he retrieves the target, he’s not happy with the results. The bullet holes are too widely spaced, too far from the centre mass, and one — a “flyer” — missed entirely.

“It’s not too good of a grouping there. It’s quite atrocious,” he says, laughing. The National Rifle Association-certified instructor may have been put off by the journalist standing next to him pointing a camera.

Or maybe he’s still tense because he spent the past half hour talking about why California politicians have made the rifle he’s holding a whole lot tougher to buy.

“You have to understand that this particular rifle is just a semiautomatic tool for, you know, sport,” Bushnell says. “And, basically, it’s everybody’s right to be able to own one if they want to.”

by Kim Brunhuber

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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.)