It is with genuine bafflement that I learn of the American Jewish Committee filing an amicus brief in favor of Washington D.C.'s draconian citizen disarmament laws.

The American Jewish Committee filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court today, asserting that the District of Columbia’s strict gun control laws do not offend the Constitution. The case, D.C. v. Heller, will be the first gun control case before the Supreme Court in sixty eight years.

“Gun control laws safeguard liberty, rather then restrict it,” said AJC General Counsel Jeffrey Sinensky. “Democracy can only flourish when the government is permitted to protect its citizens from harm.”

How can a subset of a people that has, for thousands of years, been subject to systematic slaughter--either with the government's tacit approval, or at the very hands of the government--advocate a government monopoly on force?

Guys, can't you talk some sense into these people? I hope, for the sake of the leadership of the AJC, that there is no life after this one--if there is, Golda Meir is gonna kick their asses.

Nicki has a superb, related piece here.

UPDATE: And now she has an even stronger post, referring to the same press release covered here. Go get 'em, Nicki.

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