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<blockquote data-quote="BigUnionGuy" data-source="post: 1186853" data-attributes="member: 4992">John Dean &quot;Jeff&quot; Cooper (May 10, 1920 - September 25, 2006) is known as father of the &quot;Modern Technique&quot; of handgun shooting. Most firearm professionals consider him to be one of the 20th century&#039;s leading experts on the use and history of small arms.Col. Cooper is noted for his no-nonsense quotations about guns and personal defense.&quot;The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point that a disarmed society would be a crime-free society. They will not accept the truth that if you take all the guns off the street you still will have a crime problem, whereas if you take the criminals off the street you cannot have a gun problem.&quot;&quot;In the larger sense, however, the personal ownership of firearms is only secondarily a matter of defense against the criminal. Note the following from Thomas Jefferson: The strongest reason for the people to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against the tyranny of government. That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace which cannot be subdued by tyrants.&quot;These are just a couple of his famous quotes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BigUnionGuy, post: 1186853, member: 4992"] John Dean "Jeff" Cooper (May 10, 1920 - September 25, 2006) is known as father of the "Modern Technique" of handgun shooting. Most firearm professionals consider him to be one of the 20th century's leading experts on the use and history of small arms. Col. Cooper is noted for his no-nonsense quotations about guns and personal defense. [SIZE=2]"The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point that a disarmed society would be a crime-free society. They will not accept the truth that if you take all the guns off the street you still will have a crime problem, whereas if you take the criminals off the street you cannot have a gun problem." [/SIZE] "In the larger sense, however, the personal ownership of firearms is only secondarily a matter of defense against the criminal. Note the following from Thomas Jefferson: [I]The strongest reason for the people to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against the tyranny of government.[/I] That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace which cannot be subdued by tyrants." [SIZE=3][FONT=arial]These are just a couple of his famous quotes. [/FONT] [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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