Your Mind-set Is Your Primary Weapon

One Correspondent, Who Is Into Psychology, Notes That In His Experience People Who Are Hoplophobes Are Nearly Always Nutty In Other Ways, Too. Hoplophobia [fear Of Guns], Of Course, Is Not Simply An Attitude But Rather An Aberration In Which The Sufferer Clings To An Idea Which He Himself Knows To Be Unsound, Such As The Idea That Inanimate Instruments Have A Will Of Their Own Or That Lawbreakers Abide By The Law.

Weapons Compound Man's Power To Achieve; They Amplify The Capabilities Of Both The Good Man And The Bad, And To Exactly The Same Degree, Having No Will Of Their Own. Thus We Must Regard Them As Servants, Not Masters - And Good Servants To Good Men. Without Them, Man Is Diminished, And His Opportunities To Fulfill His Destiny Are Lessened. An Unarmed Man Can Only Flee From Evil, And Evil Is Not Overcome By Fleeing From It.

Anyone Who Appears To Be Triggered Out Of Watchfulness And Into Action By Your Appearance Must Be Explained. Anyone Observing You Carefully Must Be Explained. Anyone Whose Behavior Seems To Be Geared To Yours Must Be Explained. If The Explanation Does Not Satisfy You, Be Ready To Take Appropriate Defensive Action.

The Rifle Is A Weapon. Let There Be No Mistake About That. It Is A Tool Of Power, And Thus Dependent Completely Upon The Moral Stature Of Its User. It Is Equally Useful In Securing Meat For The Table, Destroying Group Enemies On The Battlefield, And Resisting Tyranny. In Fact, It Is The Only Means Of Resisting Tyranny, Since A Citizenry Armed With Rifles Simply Cannot Be Tyrannized.

Beware The Man With One Gun. He Can Probably Use It.