I have updated my BOFC today, after completing a study of To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth by Jeff Cooper. I thought you folks might enjoy and/or appreciate the entries going in today.
Please feel free to post and share your own little pearls.
You and you alone are the only one responsible for your personal safety and security and that of your family and loved ones. To shirk that responsibility creates a nation of cowards reliant upon the outsid authority of "professionals" who cannot be with you 24/7 and who have no legal responsibilty to protect you as an individual.
Furthermore, laying down arms and placing the responsibilty of your and your loved ones security on a "higher authority" is the first giant leap toward tyranny.
(see: http://www.jim.com/cowards.htm , http://www.gunowners.org/sk0503.htm)
-Merddyn
4 Universal rules of gun safety.
1) All guns are always loaded.
2) Never point the muzzle at anything you are not willing to destroy.
3) Keep your finger off the trigger until your sighs are on the target.
4) Be sure of your target and what is behind it
- Jeff Cooper
The enemy one kills in war may be a splendid; brave, clean, reverent, truthful and so on. But a predatory felon who victimizes innocent non-combatants on the street is a proven goblin, sentenced by his own initiative.
- Jeff Cooper
You do not kill the goblin. He has chosen his own death by virtue of his own actions.
-Merddyn
If you don't intend to win, don't fight. But, if you choose to fight, make winning your exclusive objective until the fight is over.
- Jeff Cooper
You probably should turn denfense into offence if the oportunity presents itself after the opening of hostilities. (Merddyn - the intent of your assailant is already proven.)
- Jeff Cooper
It is obvious that awareness, the by-product of alertness, is the first principle of any sort of fighting, and especially so in the case of the man alone.
- Jeff Cooper
The way to win is to know that there is going to be a fight before it happens. Once you know that, "your strength is as the strength of ten" because you can dictate the conditions of the conflict.
- Jeff Cooper
If you don't know you're in trouble, no amount of ability on your part will save you. (Merddyn: Therefore alertness is even more critical than ability.)
- Jeff Cooper
It is important to note that numbers do not necessarily mean bodies. One well-situated rifleman - alert, skillful and determined - can be the equivalent of a dozen or more untrained, sketchily armed, or badly disciplined assailants.
- Jeff Cooper
In small unit tactics sheer surprise may totally invert numerical superiority
- Jeff Cooper
Then if one day evil does at last arrive you will remember the watchwords - Initiative, Surprise, SPEED. You'll have a better chance than most.
- Jeff Cooper
Since most people respond to hypothetcial with the assumption that it will not come to them, the first step in adjusting to your present social situation is the hard, clear, unflinching understanding that it can indeed come to us - personally.
It is amazing to read people that did not choose to believe this until after they have been victimized. They all knew that burglary, robbery, assault and murder were not only possible, but frequent, but they took no precautions, but they took no precautions because they simpley would not admit that they, themselves, could be the victim.
- Jeff Cooper
The police cannot protect you in your home. If goblins break in upon you the police should be called - as soon as you get around to it - in order to write out reports and clean up the mess. But the goblins are your problem. Bear that always in mind.
- Jeff Cooper
The stranger at your door must be considered a possible target until otherwise proven. And this is not fear, much less the popularly misused term "paranoia." This is intellegent caution.
- Jeff Cooper
