“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."

Doris Wise Montrose

Second Amendment

Ninth Circuit Restores Ammo Background Checks In CA

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 16, 2020

It would seem that a law that was designed to make it so a lot of people who should be able to lawfully purchase ammunition were denied that ability, would be in violation of their second amendment rights…. A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling Thursday that California’s requirement for background

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Wake Up: COVID-19 Pandemic Not Impeding Anti-Gun Activism

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 15, 2020

Disarming citizens remains the goal and is part and parcel of the restriction of our rights we’re living through now. U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- Lest anyone think “stay home, stay safe” coronavirus orders have slowed down the anti-Second Amendment gun control crusade, guess again, because gun prohibition lobbying groups are alive and adjusting to “the new normal” by planning

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Second Amendment Group Says Decision To Stop Fingerprinting Is Infringing Their Rights

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 15, 2020

“Suing for the RIGHT to be fingerprinted, to be ALLOWED to purchase firearms. Oh, the irony.” BRIDGEPORT, CT — A Second Amendment group filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Connecticut Saturday, claiming Gov. Ned Lamont and several municipal police chiefs have violated their rights by slowing down the gun permitting process due to

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Bubble-Wrapped Americans: How the U.S. Became Obsessed with Physical and Emotional Safety

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 15, 2020

“In America we say if anyone gets hurt, we will ban it for everyone everywhere for all time. And before we know it, everything is banned.” Professor Jonathan Haidt It’s a common refrain: We have bubble-wrapped the world. Americans in particular are obsessed with “safety.” The simplest way to get any law passed in America,

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Bloomberg’s gun control group plans $5 million effort in Arizona

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 15, 2020

Arizona is one of the last bastions of freedom in the country. So, of course, Arizona (where I escaped to) is a major target. Hopefully, Arizona Republicans can muster themselves into actually doing something with their strength and numbers – while we still have it. The turning of blue from red can be laid at

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‘The Shot heard ‘Round the World’ (Video)

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 15, 2020

Second Amendment

Second Amendment Challenge to N.J. Gun Range Closure

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 15, 2020

‘“The right to self-defense is “the central component of the [Second Amendment] right,” Heller, 554 U.S. at 599 (emphasis added), and it is “a basic right, recognized by many legal systems from ancient times to the present day,” McDonald, 561 U.S. at 767. Indeed, the right to self-protection and self-preservation was viewed at the Founding

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Everytown Recruiting Faith Leaders to Push Anti-Gun Candidates Ahead of 2020 Elections

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 15, 2020

The Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund is actively recruiting faith leaders to push anti-gun politicians ahead of the 2020 elections. The organization, largely bankrolled by failed presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, announced this week its plan to “mobilize faith communities to elect gun sense candidates” in November. “Individuals and organizations partnering with Everytown will work

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GUNS END GUN VIOLENCE – Bosch Fawstin

by Doris Wise Montrose on April 21, 2020

Second Amendment

The Coronavirus Pandemic Is No Excuse to Close Gun Stores

by Doris Wise Montrose on April 21, 2020

“No matter what gun-control advocates claim, public-health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic do not give governments carte blanche to trample on the constitutional rights of their citizens. Mandating the closure of all firearm retailers across an entire state or locality would do just that. State and local governments have a duty to protect their

"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.)