Sheep can be controlled by the sheepdog for the same reason they fear the wolf — they are both predators. The same relationships hold with the general population, the police, and the criminals. Most people are sheep, but you don’t have to be. If you have the skills and attitude of a predator the criminals will leave you alone — because they will recognize you as a predator and there is easier game available.
Greg Hamilton (paraphrased)
Self Defense Instructor
February 5, 1997
It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
From Sir Francis Bacon essays.
Attributed to Virgil; a Roman writer 10/15/0070 – 09/21/0019 BC
The author lives in a flatland where self-reliance is in an inaccessible direction called ‘up’.
Sean Flynn
3/30/98
In reference to a rabid anti-gunner.
Some police are advising people to just comply with a mugger/rapists demands in hopes of not getting hurt. The next time someone does that I’m going up to him and start taking down his pants. When he asks what I doing I’m going to tell him I’m raping him and he should follow his own advice and submit so he doesn’t get hurt.
Greg Hamilton
Self Defense Instructor
February 6, 1999
Why ask retorical questions?
Arun Sagar
March 10, 2000
The correct way to punctuate a sentence that starts: “Of course it is none of my business but–” is to place a period after the word “but.” Don’t use excessive force in supplying such moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about.
Robert Heinlein
It is a natural impossibility that a government should have a right to punish men for their vices; because it is impossible that a government should have any rights, except such as the individuals composing it previously had, as individuals. They could not delegate to a government any rights which they did not themselves possess. They could not contribute to the government any rights, except such as they themselves possessed as individuals. Now, nobody but a fool or an impostor pretends that he, as an individual, has a right to punish other men for their vices. But anybody and everybody have a natural right, as individuals, to punish other men for their crimes; for everybody has a natural right, not only to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defense of everybody else, whose person or property is invaded. The natural right of each individual to defend his own person and property against an aggressor, and to go to the assistance and defense of every one else whose person or property is invaded, is a right without which men could not exist on the earth. And government has no rightful existence, except in so far as it embodies, and is limited by, this natural right of individuals.
Lysander Spooner
From: Vices Are Not Crimes
The primary goal of the National Rifle Association’s Eddie Eagle program is not to safeguard children, but to protect the interests of the NRA and the firearms industry by making guns more acceptable to children and youth. The Eddie Eagle program employs strategies similar to those utilized by America’s tobacco industry-from youth “educational” programs that are in fact marketing tools to the use of appealing cartoon characters that aim to put a friendly face on a hazardous product. The hoped-for result is new customers for the industry and new members for the NRA.
Violence Policy Center
From http://www.vpc.org/fact_sht/eddiekey.htm as of April 15, 1999
[Either the VPC has never viewed the Eddie Eagle materials and presentation, they are so blinded by hate they didn’t see and understand what was being said, or they are just flat out lying because they think no one will check out their story. Also, of interest is that Marion Hammer created the Eddie Eagle program.]
Our fighting system is as non diagnostic as can be, very little conditional branching, and works against either side attack without mirroring. It is reactive from the stand point that the bad guy has to attack but after that it stresses that you be the actor forever after that.
My simple combat philosophy: My turn, my space, your pain.
Greg Hamilton
Thu 7/19/01 6:47 PM
Email to Insights discussion group
I can remember the exact moment I fully appreciated the enjoyment that can come from using explosives… The old car body disintegrated into a shower of metal shards from the impact of the HE (high explosives) round.
The concussion from the shot threw up sand and bits of rock in a gritty, dusty shower. Trapped between the explosion and the little basalt canyon as I was, the blast about washed me off the tank. It was as if the steel monster had run into a wall of Jell-O.
All the sagebrush and wire grass in front of the tank was uprooted and destroyed. Any living thing up to sixty feet under and in front of the main gun would have been killed by the muzzle blast. It was at that moment, sitting in the basket as I rode through the tank commander school on the desert south of Boise, Idaho, that I realized I was addicted to high explosives. The smell was exhilarating, the effect of the tank a charm, and the return rumble of the round as it detonated downrange a pure delight.
Ragnar Benson
From: Ragnar’s Guide to Home and Recreational Use of High Explosives
Page 109,110, Copyright 1988
The power and potential abuse of the licensing of gun owners lies with who owns and controls the database. They (your government) have already demonstrated that their intentions cannot be trusted.
Brian Bourgoin
June 23, 1994 10:56AM
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
Robert Heinlein
I love making empties. The size and shape of the targets that I miss are rather irrelevant to my joy.
Kerry Pierce
IPSC email list
April 8, 1999
The truly and deliberately evil men are in a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is the appeaser’s intellectual abdication that invites them to take over. When a culture’s dominant trend is geared to irrationality, the thugs win over the appeasers. When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, uninformed, vacillating characters of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes.
Altruism as Appeasement
Ayn Rand
TO, 1-66, 6.
To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.
To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assesed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harrased, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored.
That is government; that is its justice, that is its morality.
Pierre J. Proudhon
General Idea of the Revolution in the 19th Century
I like having a very direct and very powerful impact on worker safety and health. If you put out a reg, it matters. I think that’s really where the thrill comes from. And it is a thrill; it’s a high… I love it; I absolutely love it. I was born to regulate. I don’t know why, but that’s very true. So as long as I’m regulating, I’m happy.
Marthe Kent
OSHA director of safety standards program.
National Review’s Internet Update
June 26, 2000
For once I’d really like to see a ‘women’s’ self defense book or whatever saying (show picture of IPSC target): “Here’s a pressure point. Apply 124 grains of pressure.“
Buji Kern
March 17, 1999
Ultimately, people will have to be controlled directly. The only open question is whether it will be the “jackboot” model (1984) or the “soma” model (Brave New World). Soma’s ahead by just a nose as they round the turn…
Scott Meredith
Upon hearing that there is a push to register air guns in the UK.
May 10, 2000 9:23 AM
This is the kind of adventure that is better when it is over.
Barbara Scott
September 24, 2000
About 3:00 AM while traversing a narrow, gravel, poorly mantained road in the middle of West Virgina (Dolly Sods) trying to find the way to a time-share condo.
I will tell dispatch to hold the SWAT team.
John Willard
President, Clearwater Country Sheriff’s Posse
Reserve Deputy for Clearwater County
April 14, 1999
This was in response to Joe Huffman asking him if he would let the Sheriff know about the Boomershoot before the neighbors did. John participated in the fun.
