Jeff Cooper
Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery.Collection: Men
If a felon attacks you and lives, he will reasonably conclude that he can do it again. By submitting to him, you not only imperil your own life, but you jeopardize the lives of others.Collection: Felons
We learn that Comrade [President of South Africa Nelson] Mandela has announced in a speech that he hopes for a bright future in South Africa for ‘liberty’ and ‘equality.’ Anyone who has thought about it realizes that liberty and equality are antithetical concepts. You can have one, or you can have the other, but you certainly cannot have both. As to that, either concept is a rather futile goal. Equality is biologically impossible, and liberty is only obtainable in homogeneous populations very thinly spread.Collection: Goal
Know what is behind you, and pay particular attention to anything out of place.Collection: Attention
Bushido is all very well in its way, but it is no match for a 30-06.Collection: Gun
The proliferation of state concealed carry laws has evidently reduced the rate of violent street crime to a considerable extent. When the goblins do not know who is armed and who is not, their professional enthusiasm declines. Now that Britain has made sure (insofar as any law can so insure) that everybody is disarmed, the streets arem given back to the bad kid with the baseball bat. We hope they are satisfied.Collection: Baseball
The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it.Collection: Decide Upon
Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons.... Pick up a rifle - a really good rifle - and if you know how to use it well, you change instantly from a mouse to a man, from a peon to a caballero, and - most significantly - from a subject to a citizen.Collection: Queens
On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.Collection: Serious
It has long been my conviction that a masked man with a gun is a target. I see no reason to change that view.Collection: Gun
The proper course of action, when under attack, is usually to counterattack.Collection: Action
We are somewhat amused by the hysteria manifest in the press at the suggestion by Gordon Liddy that if one is menaced by bad guys (particularly the ninja) one is wise to shoot for the head. That statement has got a whole bunch of journalists and commentators bleeding from the nose. One wonders why it should. Where else should you shoot a man if he is probably wearing an armored vest? If you decide to shoot you have made the big decision. Where you place your shot is merely a technical matter.Collection: Wise
Beware the man with one gun. He can probably use it.Collection: Gun
The rifle is the queen of weapons and its effective use is one of the greatest satisfactions available to man.Collection: Queens
What you do to prevent further felonious assault, as long as the felon is still capable of action, is justified.Collection: Long
"What would I do if?.." By thinking tactically, we can more easily arrive at correct tactical solutions, and practice - even theoretical practice - tends to produce confidence in our solutions which, in turn, makes it easier for us, and thus quicker, to reach a decision.Collection: Thinking
Speed is the absolute essence of any form of combatCollection: Essence
Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons.Collection: Queens
It seems evident that the basis for civil safety is homogeneity. A culture which is socially uniform is pretty well devoid of informal violence.Collection: Safety
The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their profession too dangerous when the streets are full of "civilians" who may or may not be armed. Poor babies!Collection: Baby
By doing what our assailant least expects us to do, we may throw him completely off. ... what he usually least suspects is instant, violent counterattack, so the principle of aggressiveness is closely tied to threat of surprise.Collection: May
It may be that there is such a thing as racial memory, and it is supported by the undeniable observation that the goblins will get you if you don't watch out.Collection: Memories
I think the works of W.D. Gann and Robert Prechter have inspired me more than anyone else. It was from their writings that I discovered cycles, patterns, and psychology dominate the market, and that the news breaks with the cycles, not the other way around.Collection: Writing
It appears that the Soviets are now going to allow prayer in school. One wonders how soon the United States will catch up.Collection: Prayer
Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. The possession of a good rifle, as well as the skill to use it well, truly makes a man the monarch of all he surveys. It realizes the ancient dream of the Jovian thunderbolt, and as such it is the embodiment of personal power. For this reason it exercises a curious influence over the minds of most men, and in its best examples it constitutes an object of affection unmatched by any other inanimate object.Collection: Dream
Let us remind ourselves again that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution should be referred to as the Statute of Liberty.Collection: Second Amendment
It seems that the concealed carry policy now in effect in 30 states is unfair to goblins. They cannot tell who is armed and who is not, and when their intended victim shoots back it hurts their feelings - along with other things.Collection: Hurt
Your physical safety is up to you, as it really always has been.Collection: Safety
It is high time for society to stop worrying about the criminal, and to let the criminal start worrying about society. And by "society" I mean you.Collection: Mean
We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.Collection: Justified
If it is ever your misfortune to be attacked, alertness will have given you a little warning, decisiveness will have given you a proper course to pursue, and if that course is to counterattack, carry it out with everything you've got! Be indignant. Be angry. Be aggressive.Collection: Warning
Buy ammunition! Remember that a man cannot have too many books, too many wines, or too much ammunition. Our adversaries on the other side are reaching for the excuse of lead poisoning. If they can push that idea through, you may wind up still owning your guns but without anything to shoot in them.Collection: Book
The best personal defense is an explosive counterattack.Collection: Defense
I am sometimes perplexed by people who refer to defensive rifles, or defensive rifle shooting. The defensive arm is the pistol, since you have it at hand to meet situations that you do not anticipate. If you have the luxury of anticipating a lethal encounter, you pick up a long arm, either a rifle or a shotgun, but in that case you go on to the attack. Thus rifle shooting is offensive, and pistol shooting is defensive. Of course, life does not always duplicate theory, and there are exceptions to everything, but nevertheless the rifle is not a defensive weapon in concept.Collection: Gun
Don't try to be fancy. Shoot for the center of mass. The world is full of decent people. Criminals we can do without.Collection: People
No sensible person ever opens the door of his house without knowing who is knocking.Collection: Doors
Under any sort of attack, keep cool. And if you must shoot, shoot with precision.Collection: Self Defense
Anyone who is aware of his environment knows that the peril of physical assault does exist, and that it exists everywhere and at all times.Collection: Doe
The purpose of the pistol is to stop a fight that somebody else has started, almost always at very short range.Collection: Fighting
The one who anticipates the action wins. The one who does not, loses.Collection: Winning
Anyone who willfully and maliciously attacks another without sufficient cause jeopardize the lives of others.Collection: Causes
In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in.Collection: Hurt
Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing.Collection: Self
Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.Collection: Democracies Have
It is long been a principal of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than he is a musician because he owns a piano. There is no point in having a gun if you are not capable of using it skillfully.Collection: Gun
There ain't many troubles that a man caint fix With seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six.Collection: Men
A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse.Collection: Gun
Now how do we cultivate an aggressive response? I think the answer is indignation... Your response, if attacked, must not be fear, it must be anger.Collection: Thinking
The one who fights back retains his dignity and his self-respect.Collection: Fighting