Massad Ayoob Quotes

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• History has shown that the greater power of the gun is its power to deter. Bear in mind that criminals, by definition, target only victims…
• A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.
• Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a horror…
• The Second Amendment isn't about duck hunting or target shooting.
• In a lifetime among cops since, I've noted that investigators who piece together the aftermaths of home invasion murders tend to keep their guns on…
• My own idea of a $5,500 .45 auto is a used Volkswagon with a Glock 30 in the glove box...
• I resent 'experts' who have never faced deadly threat, yet who tell me - and you - that we should not consider a response of…
• Dr. King kept guns in his home to protect himself and his family. After firebombing and numerous death threats by racists, his application for a…
• The way to reason with a predator is to make it aware that it can live in a cage, or it can die, but it…
• The religious fanatic who practices terrorism cannot be reasoned with, because there is nothing you can threaten him with, and no alternative you can offer…
• You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics.

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