“You need to have the highest level of skill that you can have given the resources that you have available.” — John Hearne  ...

“Gunfights are won years in advance. They are won on the range, by yourself, in 105-degree weather working on your draw.” — John Chapman...

“Pushing people’s buttons emotionally is a great way to diminish them physically.” — Craig Douglas   Ladies and Gentleman, this is the main event...

“Capacity does not equal accuracy or ability.” — Steve Fisher   John is all alone and forced to explain his own nerd-references while also...

“Emotional control is one of the hardest things to learn if you’ve never done any [intensive training or have experience] and you’re not going...

“Nobody [says], “I don’t carry a firearm because when the fight happens I’ll just pick up a brick or a rock or something and...

“Most of the guns we see turn out to be obese, to put it mildly. Guys will show up with all sorts of paraphernalia...

“If we do something that’s supposed to make us safer but ends up being negligent on our part we might as well not have...

If you can’t recognize the types of… pre-assault indicators, what a criminal might be doing… just before his assault you’re really no better off...

“On more than one occasion I’ve been driving to a class… and I’ve seen a vehicle on the side of the road in distress,...