"Police do not stop Crime, they stop
Speeders! Police investigate crimes but very seldom are they at the right place in time to actually stop a crime"
"A Lifetime Warranty on a concealed carry firearm isn't much good, If the firearm fails in an armed encounter, the owner of the firearm might expire, along with the warranty."
-John Abbott
Don't make a firearm cheaper so you can sell more, Make the firearm dependable and easy to service by the end user. Make parts readily available to the end user so they can service his own firearm. Then you will have trouble keeping the firearms in stock to meet demand.
-John Abbott
"A veteran, whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve, is someone who at one point in his or her life wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America' for an amount of 'up to and including my life."
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When seconds count... the police are only minutes away.
"I don't do nuance. People ask me what I think, and I tell them."
- Rush Limbaugh
"Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it with effect, those who take the other will of course be hostile in proportion as they feel that effect."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Be vigilant at all times. If you have you are looking down, the predator can plainly read "VICTIM" on the top of your head. If you are looking ahead and aware of your surroundings, the predator instead sees "VICTOR" and looks elsewhere for his prey.
- John Abbott
When someone complains of being "Out-gunned" all too often the problem is they are "OUT-PRACTICED."
- John Abbott
"Eye and Ear protection for the shooter are at all times important. It doesn't matter how much you spend on the pistol or where you carry it, If you are unable to see or hear the approaching threat, your firearm is of no use."
- John Abbott
"A carry gun has one purpose, that purpose is to work dependably every time the trigger is pulled. Dependability of function, power and accuracy are of utmost importance. The gun manufacturers can make a great gun that works every time. But, if the shooter does not practice with that firearm the accuracy will never come."
- John Abbott
"I would rather someone shoot at me with a .45 and miss, than someone hit me with a 9 mm."
- John Abbott (see below)
"You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em."
- Lt. Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC
"Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any AMERICA because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!"
- Lt. Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC
"Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley,raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morallysuperior to a woman explaining to police how her attackergot that fatal bullet wound."
- WAGC website
“There's no question that weapons in the hands of the public have prevented acts of terror or stopped them.”
- Israeli Police Inspector General Shlomo Aharonisky
"The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose."
- James Earl Jones
"Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day, light a man on fire, and he'll be warm the rest of his life"
- Staff Sgt. Timothy A. Breen
"...arms...discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. ...Horrid mischief would ensue were (the law-abiding) deprived the use of them."
- Thomas Paine
“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
- Samuel Adams
“You won’t get gun control by disarming law-abiding citizens. There’s only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up and if you don’t actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time... It’s a nasty truth, but those who seek to inflict harm are not fazed by gun controllers. I happen to know this from personal experience.”
- Ronald Reagan in 1983, after surviving the 1981 assassination attempt of
the deranged John Hinckley.
"When they come for my guns, I will pry their guns from their cold dead fingers."
- John Abbott
"A Man should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
- Robert A. Heinlein
"How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual... as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of."
- Texas State Rep. Suzanna Gratia-Hupp
An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
- Jeff Cooper
Quotes from Clint Smith:
"The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. I’d choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead."
"The two most important rules in a gunfight are: always cheat and always win."
"Every time I teach a class, I discover I don’t know something."
"Don’t forget, incoming fire has the right of way."
"Make (your attacker) advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, bet he’s gonna have to beat me to death with it, ‘cause it’s going to be empty."
"If you’re not shootin’, you should be loadin’. If you’re not loadin’, you should be movin’. If you’re not movin’, someone’s gonna cut your head off and put it on a stick."
"When you reload (in low light encounters), don’t put your flashlight in your back pocket. If you light yourself up, you’ll look like an angel or the tooth fairy - and you’re gonna be one of ‘em pretty soon."
"Do something. It may be wrong, but do something."
"Shoot what’s available, as long as it’s available, until something else becomes available."
"If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That’s ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?"
"Don’t shoot fast, shoot good."
"You can say ‘stop’ or ‘alto’ or use any other word you think will work, but I’ve found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone’s head is pretty much the universal language."
"You have the rest of your life to solve your problems. How long you live depends on how well you do it."
"You cannot save the planet. You may be able to save yourself and your family."