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Jeff Cooper

"Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician."

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"My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there."

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"I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around."

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"Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded."

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"My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!"

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"If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet."

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"I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!"

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"The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind."

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"Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen."
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"Remember the first rule of gunfighting... "have a gun.""
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"Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands."
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"We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene."
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"The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation."
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"The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory."
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Jeff Cooper
"Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician."
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