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

Anyone who willfully and maliciously attacks another without sufficient cause jeopardize the lives of others.

Bushido is all very well in its way, but it is no match for a 30-06.

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

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.

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.

It`s human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.