If you find yourself under lethal attack don't be kind. Be harsh. Be tough. Be ruthless.
Jeff CooperIf a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is - a truth standing apart from the mood of the times.
Jeff CooperIf 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.
Jeff CooperThe will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.
Jeff CooperAn armed man, especially if he is armed with a firearm, is dangerous as long as he is conscious. Take no chances. Put him out.
Jeff CooperOne 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.
Jeff Cooper