12 Quotes by Massad Ayoob

Firearms, if you think about it, are power tools. They drill holes in things and chew things up. That’s their purpose. The purpose of the user is, quite simply, to puncture and destroy the right things and not the wrong things.

In the end, the focus on safety should be credited to the entire firearms-owning community, the “gun culture” if you will.

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.

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.

The Second Amendment isn’t about duck hunting or target shooting.

Remember: once you have ascertained that you are dealing with hostile intruders, the staircase becomes a free-fire zone.

My own idea of a $5,500 .45 auto is a used Volkswagon with a Glock 30 in the glove box...

You’re born with intelligence, but not with ethics.

A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.