“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

Trump, the day after: “Respect 2nd Amendment!”

by Jews Can Shoot on March 4, 2018

“After a disastrous performance in a “listening session” yesterday in which Trump ridiculed Republicans for being controlled by the NRA and suggested grabbing guns without due process, the president offered a hint of a walkback today on his favorite medium:…”

Pontificate in haste, repent at leisure. Or perhaps Donald Trump didn’t have as much leisure as he might have surmised. After a disastrous performance in a “listening session” yesterday in which Trump ridiculed Republicans for being controlled by the NRA and suggested grabbing guns without due process, the president offered a hint of a walkback today on his favorite medium:

“Some good & some not so good,” indeed, and the latter puts it mildly. One not-so-good idea was his attack on the NRA, an organization that jumped in early to back Trump and has been stalwart in his defense ever since, and on his fellow Republicans in the room. Castigating them for agreeing with the organization that embraced Trump was … a bit surprising, to say the least:

Sitting with a group of Democrats and Republicans, including some who are backed by the NRA, Trump made what sounded like an extraordinary break with the powerful gun-rights organization. He accused lawmakers of being so “petrified” by the NRA that they have not been willing to take even small steps on gun control.

“They have great power over you people,” Trump said. “They have less power over me.”

by Ed Morrissey

NRA Applauds U.S. Rep McSally's Introduction of Mental Health Bill

I Bought My First Gun Because Of The CNN Town Hall

"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.)