The Wisdom of Properly Using Firearms

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I got an e-mail forward today that I read because the title actually piqued my interest. Granted it's a forward, so it's filled to the brim with agendas and propaganda, and I didn't bother to fact check it to see who/what/where it originally came from. I also apologize if it happens to be a repost.

Regardless, I figured the rest of you gun nuts would enjoy it.

The Wisdom of Properly Using Firearms

Clint Smith, Director of Thunder Ranch, is part drill instructor, and part standup comic (Thunder Ranch is a firearms training facility in Arizona ).

Here are a few of his observation on tactics, firearms, self defense and life as we know it in the civilized world.

"The most important rule in a gunfight is: Always win and cheat if necessary."

"Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way."

"Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. You may get killed with your own gun, but he'll have to beat you to death with it, cause it's going to be empty."

"If you're not shootin', you should be loadin'. If you're not loadin', you should be movin', if you're not movin', someone's gonna cut your head off and put it on a stick."

"When you reload in low light encounters, don't put your flashlight in your back pocket... If you light yourself up, you'll look like an angel or the tooth fairy... And you're gonna be one of 'em pretty soon."

"Do something. It may be wrong, but do something."

"Shoot what's available, as long as it's available, until something else becomes available."

"If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If you have a gun, what in the hell do you have to be paranoid for."

"Don't shoot fast, unless you also shoot good."

"You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or use any other word you think will work, but I've found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone's head is pretty much the universal language."

"You have the rest of your life to solve your problems. How long you live depends on how well you do it."

"You cannot save the planet, but you may be able to save yourself and your family."

"Thunder Ranch will be here as long as you'll have us or until someone makes us go away, and either way, it will be exciting."

More Excellent Gun Wisdom.......

The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.

1. Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.

2. If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.

3. I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.

4. When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away.

5. A reporter did a human-interest piece on the Texas Rangers. The reporter recognized the Colt Model 1911 the Ranger was carrying and asked him 'Why do you carry a 45?' The Ranger responded, 'Because they don't make a 46.'

6. An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.

7. The old sheriff was attending an awards dinner when a lady commented on his wearing his sidearm. 'Sheriff, I see you have your pistol. Are you expecting trouble?' 'No ma'am. If I were expecting trouble, I would have brought my rifle.'

8. Beware of the man who only has one gun, because he probably knows how to use it very well.

'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton

A people that values its privileges above its principles will soon lose both.

If you believe in the 2nd Amendment, please forward...

[Likwid]

those are pretty good

[oldschoolsdime92]

I once was curious about home security, and I ask a guy if he had a some security system. He paused and smiled and said "Smith and Wesson"

[chevysoldier]

Best one' date=' in my opinion. [/size']

I second that, adding

'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton

This reminds me a little bit of that military list.

"Friendly fire isn't."

"Tracers work both ways"

[speedytriple]

And here I thought he was just the guy who designs bad ass revolvers?

http://www.thunderranchinc.com/swtrr2.html

[max power]

There is some good bumper sticker fodder there.

I once was curious about home security, and I ask a guy if he had a some security system. He paused and smiled and said "Smith and Wesson"

Yeah, he had a Smith & Wesson security system.

http://www.smithwessonsecurity.com/

Keep in mind kids, a security system protects your property from intruders when you're not home.

You're guns wont do you're property a bit of good when you are not there to use them. As a matter of fact, without a security system to protect them, they will probably be gone.

Most thieves wont break into your home when you are there. They are usually a little smarter than that.

Edited January 28, 2010 by max power

[DangBruhY]

Nice... I'll have to forward this to a few people.

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Another e-mail forward I wouldn't normally pass along, but I know the crew here enjoys this stuff. I can't verify the actual source or where this came from...

The Gun is Civilization

by Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret)

Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that's it.

In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.

When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.

The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.

There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we'd be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a [armed] mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger's potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat--it has no validity when most of a mugger's potential marks are armed.

People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that's the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.

Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser.

People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level.

The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn't work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both lethal and easily employable.

When I carry a gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I'm looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation... and that's why carrying a gun is a civilized act.

By Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret)

So the greatest civilization is one where all citizens are equally armed and can only be persuaded, never forced.

[Disclaimer]

Another forward - "Virginia Preparation"

Seems this gal cruises thru a stop sign, or whatever, and gets pulled over by a local policeman. She hands the cop her driver's license, insurance verification, plus her concealed carry permit.

"Okay, Miss Smith," the cop says, "I see your CCW permit. Are you carrying today?"

"Yes, I am."

"Well then, better tell me what you got."

Smith says, "Well, I got a .357 revolver in my inside coat pocket. There's a 9mm semi-auto in the glove box. And, I've got a .22 magnum derringer in my right boot."

"Okay," the cop says. "Anything else?"

"Yeah, back in the trunk, there's an AR15 and a shotgun. That's about it."

"Miss Smith, are you on your way to or from a gun range....?"

"Nope."

"Well then, what are you afraid of...?"

"Not a damn thing..."

[BiggO]

I once was curious about home security, and I ask a guy if he had a some security system. He paused and smiled and said "Smith and Wesson"

That's for when he is home. When he is not home, then the smith and wesson is free game for whoever breaks in!

[chevysoldier]

[jporter12]

@ Va. preparation!

I didn't see this thread a year ago, I missed some good ones!

[eggs]

Good post, I watched some of his videos good stuff.