Quotes by Massad Ayoob - Page 1

You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics.
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The Second Amendment isn't about duck hunting or target shooting.
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My own idea of a $5,500 .45 auto is a used Volkswagon with a Glock 30 in the glove box.
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A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.
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...in any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it.
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Remember: once you have ascertained that you are dealing with hostile intruders, the staircase becomes a free-fire zone.
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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 can no longer prey upon us.
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I resent 'experts' who have never faced deadly threat, yet who tell me - and you - that we should not consider a response of equal power against those who would threaten our lives.
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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 all the time after that, even when off duty in their own house, and keep them by the bed when they go to sleep.They have learned from the helplessly-murdered dead
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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 him that is more palatable than his genuine belief that if he dies fighting you, he will be greatly rewarded in afterlife. Only swift and extreme force can stop him.
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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 permit to carry a gun was denied by the 'may issue' white power structure (Democrat) in that time and place. Let the holiday that celebrates this man’s life include some reflection on the importance of the Second Amendment.
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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 they believe they can overpower. When the intended victim draws a gun, the predator realizes that their erstwhile target has the ability to kill them instantly. This tends to modify their behavior immediately without a shot being fired.
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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 of inflicting that nightmarish, never forgotten damage on a fellow human being. Perhaps the only more terrifying prospect is that such a fate should befall us or our loved ones. This is why we, a representative cross-section of America's population, keep deadly weapons for personal defense.
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