“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."

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Finding an Arthritis-Friendly Defensive Handgun

by Jews Can Shoot on February 15, 2018

If you have arthritis, you know what pain and stiffness are, and you know how the disease affects your joints, energy level, strength, and functionality.

Yours truly has degenerative disc disease and low back pain—a package that makes some days more of a challenge than others. As such, I am aware of how my body can conspire to make difficult many everyday activities that folks without these genes take for granted. I’m talking about flexion, extension, and weight bearing activities such as walking, running, bending, kneeling, twisting, reaching, pulling, pushing, lifting, and so forth, all of which are pretty relevant to carrying a gun and self defense. Similarly, if you have hand or arm pain, deformities, or weakness as a result of rheumatoid arthritis or some variant of this disease, you are no doubt well aware of your functional limitations.

If you are a defensive or competitive shooter, these issues can present a load of problems. In this article (which is the first in a two-part series) we shall discuss considerations in choosing an arthritis-friendly defensive handgun that you can actually use if you have arthritic genes that have blossomed. In our next issue, we shall look at some ways to get around the problems caused by arthritis so that you can still improve, practice, and maintain your defensive handgun skills with your chosen handguns.

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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.)