Not long ago it was easy to tell who the bad guys were…

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…

— Jeff Cooper

It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all those Kalashnikov…

— Jeff Cooper

Don't try to be fancy. Shoot for the center of mass. The world is full of decent people. Criminals we can do without.

— Jeff Cooper

Therefore, if you are attacked, retaliate instantly. Be sudden. Be quick. Speed is your salvation.

— Jeff Cooper

Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.

— Jeff Cooper

The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for…

— Jeff Cooper

If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police,…

— 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…

— Jeff Cooper

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,…

— Jeff Cooper

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

— Jeff Cooper

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

— Jeff Cooper

You better be looking for another pitcher.

— Jeff Cooper

It is true that a victim who fights back may suffer for it, but one who does not almost certainly will suffer for it.

— Jeff Cooper

If a felon attacks you and lives, he will reasonably conclude that he can do it again. By submitting to him, you not only…

— Jeff Cooper

An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.

— Jeff Cooper