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Especially when they're carried out against Jewish targets as in this case. I personally don't get it. I like the Jews and gladly consider them allies in almost all respects. They have been around as a people for three thousand years and have survived endless adversity. We can learn from their experience, from their adaptations. I have studied them in fact and have gained wisdom in doing so.

My old tagline here at FR was a Jewish quote in fact from a 9th circuit judge that many of us may still be familiar with, Jusge Alex Kozinski. he said:

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. See Kleinfeld Dissent at 578-579. 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.

My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime routinely do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed — where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

With all this talk of gun control because of this attack against a Jewish supermarket no less, we would all be wise to remember Judge Kozinski's words here.