Therefore, if you are attacked, retaliate instantly. Be sudden. Be quick. Speed is your salvation. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
If a felon attacks you and lives, he will reasonably conclude that he can do it again. By submitting to him, you… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
If you find yourself under lethal attack don't be kind. Be harsh. Be tough. Be ruthless. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
We are somewhat amused by the hysteria manifest in the press at the suggestion by Gordon Liddy that if one is menaced… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
"What would I do if?.." By thinking tactically, we can more easily arrive at correct tactical solutions, and practice - even theoretical… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
If you don't understand weapons you don't understand fighting. If you don't understand fighting you don't understand war. If you don't understand… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
It is long been a principal of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
What are we going to do if citizens are disarmed, and the government doesn't obey its own laws? — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
If a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is - a truth standing apart from the… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
The only acceptable response to the threat of lethal violence is immediate and savage counterattack. If you resist, you just may get… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
The criminal does not expect his prey to fight back. May he never choose you, but, if he does, surprise him. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
It's a matter of will. If you know that you can keep your head, and that you must keep your head, you… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Regardless of what we think we know and should happen the reality is that a lot of stock action is random. Therefore,… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Under any sort of attack, keep cool. And if you must shoot, shoot with precision. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
If you must use your hands, use them with all the strength you possess... If you choose to strike, by all means… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
If it is ever your misfortune to be attacked, alertness will have given you a little warning, decisiveness will have given you… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons.... Pick up a… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Anyone who appears to be triggered out of watchfulness and into action by your appearance must be explained. Anyone observing you carefully… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Now how do we cultivate an aggressive response? I think the answer is indignation... Your response, if attacked, must not be fear,… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
I am sometimes perplexed by people who refer to defensive rifles, or defensive rifle shooting. The defensive arm is the pistol, since… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
It may be that there is such a thing as racial memory, and it is supported by the undeniable observation that the… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Therefore, if you are attacked, retaliate instantly. Be sudden. Be quick. Speed is your salvation. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
