Therefore, If You Are Attacked, Retaliate Instantly.

By Doing What Our Assailant Least Expects Us To Do, We May Throw Him Completely Off. ... What He Usually Least Suspects Is Instant, Violent Counterattack, So The Principle Of Aggressiveness Is Closely Tied To Threat Of Surprise.

One Correspondent, Who Is Into Psychology, Notes That In His Experience People Who Are Hoplophobes Are Nearly Always Nutty In Other Ways, Too. Hoplophobia [fear Of Guns], Of Course, Is Not Simply An Attitude But Rather An Aberration In Which The Sufferer Clings To An Idea Which He Himself Knows To Be Unsound, Such As The Idea That Inanimate Instruments Have A Will Of Their Own Or That Lawbreakers Abide By The Law.

Offering Democracy To An Arab Is Like Bringing A Horse To A Steakhouse.

Personal Weapons Are What Raised Mankind Out Of The Mud, And The Rifle Is The Queen Of Personal Weapons. The Possession Of A Good Rifle, As Well As The Skill To Use It Well, Truly Makes A Man The Monarch Of All He Surveys. It Realizes The Ancient Dream Of The Jovian Thunderbolt, And As Such It Is The Embodiment Of Personal Power. For This Reason It Exercises A Curious Influence Over The Minds Of Most Men, And In Its Best Examples It Constitutes An Object Of Affection Unmatched By Any Other Inanimate Object.

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, Having No Will Of Their Own. Thus We Must Regard Them As Servants, Not Masters - And Good Servants To Good Men. Without Them, Man Is Diminished, And His Opportunities To Fulfill His Destiny Are Lessened. An Unarmed Man Can Only Flee From Evil, And Evil Is Not Overcome By Fleeing From It.