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We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.
Jeff Cooper
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Anyone who willfully and maliciously attacks another without sufficient cause jeopardize the lives of others.
Jeff Cooper
4.
The best personal defense is an explosive counterattack.
Jeff Cooper
5.
Now how do we cultivate an aggressive response? I think the answer is indignation... Your response, if attacked, must not be fear, it must be anger.
Jeff Cooper
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Under any sort of attack, keep cool. And if you must shoot, shoot with precision.
Jeff Cooper
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On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.
Jeff Cooper
8.
Your physical safety is up to you, as it really always has been.
Jeff Cooper
9.
The proper course of action, when under attack, is usually to counterattack.
Jeff Cooper
10.
If a felon attacks you and lives, he will reasonably conclude that he can do it again. By submitting to him, you not only imperil your own life, but you jeopardize the lives of others.
Jeff Cooper
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Self-defense is not only our right; it is our duty.
Ronald Reagan
12.
It is much easier and safer to scare someone into submission than to beat them into submission.
Rory Miller
13.
Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive.
Jeff Cooper
14.
It's a matter of will. If you know that you can keep your head, and that you must keep your head, you probably will keep your head.
Jeff Cooper
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Speed is the absolute essence of any form of combat
Jeff Cooper
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Therefore, if you are attacked, retaliate instantly. Be sudden. Be quick. Speed is your salvation.
Jeff Cooper
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Let your attacker worry about his life. Don't hold back. Strike no more after he is incapable of further action, but see that he is stopped.
Jeff Cooper
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I am convinced of the necessity to take an effective measure of self defense.
Seishiro Itagaki