“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 do people who are anti-gun defend their arguments?

by Jews Can Shoot on December 10, 2017

“If you don’t know much about it, the hand-wringing alarmism and fear mongering get a lot of traction. Why, if I were a cynical fellow, I might just start to wonder after a while if gun control enthusiasts weren’t preying on the ignorant in order to push an agenda.”

Same as anyone else defends their arguments. By getting monolithic.

Take water for example. It’s highly corrosive, causes untold billions of dollars in damage (floods, hurricanes, etc. ), and people drown in it daily (in the US it’s just under 4k unintentional drownings per year, or about 10/day average). You could make a case that water is the most destructive element on earth and ought to be banned completely, if it wasn’t for the fact that humans can’t go for more than three days without ingesting it, and everybody knows it.

It’s that last bit that is the catch when talking about gun control. If you don’t know much about it, the hand-wringing alarmism and fear mongering get a lot of traction. Why, if I were a cynical fellow, I might just start to wonder after a while if gun control enthusiasts weren’t preying on the ignorant in order to push an agenda.

Good thing I’m not a cynic.

by Patrick Gibbs

H/t Alex Heiphetz

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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.)