Massad Ayoob Quotes & Sayings

#1. My own idea of a $5,500 .45 auto is a used Volkswagon with a Glock 30 in the glove box ...

#2. In the end, the focus on safety should be credited to the entire firearms-owning community, the "gun culture" if you will.

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#3. In any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it.

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#4. You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics.

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#5. The practice of CCW comes with a commitment, if you're serious, and that commitment is that you will actually carry the damn thing!

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#6. Firearms, if you think about it, are power tools. They drill holes in things and chew things up. That's their purpose. The purpose of the user is, quite simply, to puncture and destroy the right things and not the wrong things.

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#7. A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.

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#8. any community that does not police itself will be policed from outside.

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#9. Remember: once you have ascertained that you are dealing with hostile intruders, the staircase becomes a free-fire zone.

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#10. And never let those who judge you forget that since you were obviously close enough to your opponent to shoot him with your gun, he was, ipso facto, close enough to shoot you with his. If,

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#11. I resent 'experts' who have never faced deadly threat, yet who tell me - and you - that we should not consider a response of equal power against those who would threaten our lives.

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