“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/Second Amendment

New Jersey stun gun ban struck down, by consent order; New Orleans ban repealed

by Jews Can Shoot on May 5, 2017

Last week, the New Jersey stun gun ban was officially declared unconstitutional, by consent order between the New Jersey Second Amendment Society (represented by Alan Beck) and the New Jersey Attorney General’s office. The AG’s office had concluded “that an outright ban on the possession of electronic arms within the state … would likely not pass constitutional muster” in light of Caetano v. Massachusetts, Heller, and McDonald; I think that’s correct, for reasons described in my “Nonlethal Self-Defense, (Almost Entirely) Nonlethal Weapons, and the Rights to Keep and Bear Arms and Defend Life” article. The New Orleans City Council also repealed the New Orleans ban last week.

In recent years, stun gun bans have also been invalidated or repealed in Michigan, Wisconsin, D.C., the Virgin Islands, Overland Park, Kan., and Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, Harford County, and Howard County (all in Maryland); the Baltimore City governments is apparently working on the repeal as well, in the wake of a lawsuit.

by Eugene Volokh

Victory in Big Lake!

Trump: ‘Eight-Year Assault’ on Second Amendment at an End

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