Massad Ayoob Quotes

#1. 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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#2. Would you love people the same if they could never die?

Eric Greitens

#3. The way to reason with a predator is to make it aware that it can live in a cage, or it can die, but it can no longer prey upon us.

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#4. Good morrow to you, Jessie," Kendrick called. "Jessica," Richard said, giving Kendrick another jerk. "Her name is Jessica!

Lynn Kurland

#5. The Second Amendment isn't about duck hunting or target shooting.

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#6. Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. Those who shoot in competition seem to have a remarkably high hit potential and survival ratio in actual gunfights.

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#8. The two-inch blade can penetrate four inches into such parts of the body, the four-inch blade eight inches, etc. Having

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#9. Unsettling and Troubling Symptoms.

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#10. Wisht I knowed what all the sins was, so I could do 'em.

John Steinbeck

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

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

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

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

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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.

Epictetus

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

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

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#21. 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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