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

Fight back! Whenever you are offered violence, fight back! The aggressor does not fear the law, so he must be taught to fear you. Whatever the risk, and at whatever the cost, fight back!

'Heroism' is not the same as coping. A man who does his job properly and succeeds through his own efforts is definitely to be commended, but he is not a hero in the classic sense until he deliberately lays his life on the line for a cause he deems to be greater than himself.

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

The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it.

A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse.

Weapons compound man's power to achieve; they amplify the capabilities of both the good man and the bad, and to exactly the same degree, having no will of their own. Thus we must regard them as servants, not masters - and good servants to good men. Without them, man is diminished, and his opportunities to fulfill his destiny are lessened. An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.