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• An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
• That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid…
• The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point…
• One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in other ways,…
• Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.
• Remember the first rule of gunfighting ... have a gun.
• The 1911 pistol remains the service pistol of choice in the eyes of those who understand the problem. Back when we audited…
• A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse.
• I am sometimes perplexed by people who refer to defensive rifles, or defensive rifle shooting. The defensive arm is the pistol, since…
• One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things…
• We thought everybody knew by now that barrel length has almost nothing to do with accuracy. I believe the myth of the…
• I have long had a tendency to tie marksmanship to morality. The essence of good marksmanship is self-control, and self-control is the…

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