The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.

If you find yourself under lethal attack don't be kind. Be harsh. Be tough. Be ruthless.

I have long had a tendency to tie marksmanship to morality. The essence of good marksmanship is self-control, and self-control is the essence of good citizenship. It is too easy to say that a good shot is automatically a good man, but it would be equally incorrect to ignore the connection.

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

Under any sort of attack, keep cool. And if you must shoot, shoot with precision.

It has long been my conviction that a masked man with a gun is a target. I see no reason to change that view.

One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in other ways, too. Hoplophobia [fear of guns], of course, is not simply an attitude but rather an aberration in which the sufferer clings to an idea which he himself knows to be unsound, such as the idea that inanimate instruments have a will of their own or that lawbreakers abide by the law.