“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."

Jews Can Shoot

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Guns: The Difference Between Garland and Paris

by Jews Can Shoot on May 5, 2015

When armed terrorists attacked Charlie Hebdo headquarters over Muhammad cartoons on January 7, unarmed police officers were forced to flee for their lives. When armed men attacked people gathered in Garland, Texas, on May 3 over Prophet Muhammad cartoons, armed police cut them down — and the Daily Mail reported that the body of one

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It’s not just protection: Why millions of women are buying guns

by Jews Can Shoot on May 4, 2015

For Elizabeth Harknett shooting a gun isn’t just practice, it’s preparation. If someone were to break into her home, she’d be ready. “If they don’t leave and they just stay there for some reason then having that gun in my hand would make me feel much safer if they tried to come at me,” said

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Senate Passes Tax-Free Holiday to Spur Gun Sales

by Jews Can Shoot on May 4, 2015

The state Senate on Thursday gave the green light to a proposal to designate one weekend a year when Texas shoppers would not have to pay sales tax on guns. Senate Bill 228 by Sen. Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe, would create a sales tax holiday for firearms, ammunition and hunting supplies during the last weekend in August. Texas already

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40 Person Mob Assaults 2 Jews on Paris’ Boulevard Voltaire

by Jews Can Shoot on May 4, 2015

Two Jewish residents of Paris were assaulted on the street by a gang of about 40 people on Friday, Israeli French JSS News reported, citing antisemitism watchdog the Bureau National de Vigilance Contre l’Antisemitisme (BNVCA). The attack against the two Jewish victims, both in their 20s, occurred at about 2:30 p.m. on Boulevard Voltaire in Paris’

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Rioters Try to Set Pizza Shop Owner on Fire, Says He Will Now Arm Himself

by Jews Can Shoot on May 4, 2015

The owner of a pizza shop in Baltimore had a life changing experience when rioters tried to set him and his car on fire this past week. Essam el Ghannam has owned and operated Papa Palace for eight years. When the riots began to grow more violent, he tried to vacate his shop, as he

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HERD IMMUNITY: Armed Citizens Change Society

by Jews Can Shoot on May 4, 2015

I mentioned that gun owners are now considered mainstream in most of America. Yes, we are finally ordinary. Measured across the nation, about one in eight adults have a concealed carry permit. More than a third of us admit we have guns at home. Gun ownership changes how criminals act. My neighbor who carries is

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Governor Abbott Files Amicus Brief Supporting California Citizens’ Second Amendment Rights

by Jews Can Shoot on May 4, 2015

Governor Greg Abbott today filed an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit brought by a coalition of California citizens and the California Rifle and Pistol Association Foundation against the County of San Diego to vindicate their Second Amendment rights. This lawsuit is currently in front of the United States Court of Appeals for the

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Gun rights advocates can use social media to better influence political outcomes

by Jews Can Shoot on April 30, 2015

“Yes, of course my senators voted for her, and what kills me is members in lost states wasting their limited time contacting committed, immovable Democrats in safe seats – like DiFi, Boxer and Schumer – when we could’ve been contacting swing Republicans and Republican leadership,” an activist friend observed in response to a national gun

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Moms Can Shoot Day – May 10, 2015

by Jews Can Shoot on April 28, 2015

Give your favorite mom – or, Mom, give your family, the gift of starting your firearms self-defense training at Jews Can Shoot Mother’s Day Special Introductory Handgun Class. In this special Mother’s Day course for beginning shooters, our friendly, experienced NRA certified instructors will teach you the fundamentals of safe, responsible, effective use of a

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There’s scientific consensus on guns — and the NRA won’t like it

by Jews Can Shoot on April 24, 2015

After the Sandy Hook tragedy, reporters often called me to ask for information on firearms. They wanted to know whether strong gun laws reduced homicide rates (I said they did); and, conversely, whether permissive gun laws lowered crime rates overall (I said they did not). I discovered that in their news articles journalists would write

"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.)