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Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper on How to Start Curbing Violent Crime
Gen Z Conservative ^

Posted on 11/24/2020 12:16:18 PM PST by WTanner1776

“If violent crime is to be curved, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim.”

For those of you that don’t know, Lt Col Jeff Cooper was a US Marine best known for developing “modern” handgun shooting techniques and for his knowledge of small arms. And I think that this quote by Lt Col Jeff Cooper on curbing violent crime shows exactly why he was such a large cultural force in the firearms community. His advice was not only theoretically useful and fun to practice at the range, but also applicable to life. He knew that one of the primary uses of a firearm is self-defense, and his teachings and the above quotation reflect that.

One of the best reasons to own a firearm is for self defense. Yes, they are great for hunting and necessary to deter, or fight if necessary, tyranny. But, for the average suburban or urban American, firearms are most useful for self defense.

That is because “when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.” The police can’t be everywhere at once. And, as pointed out in this Lt Col Jeff Cooper quote, the criminals in society don’t fear them. Instead, you have to be proactive and prepare to defend yourself. Buy an AR-15; just look at the recent George Floyd protests and Antifa riots to see why you need one.

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1 posted on 11/24/2020 12:16:18 PM PST by WTanner1776
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To: WTanner1776

Violent criminals and their dependents, supporters, etc., are an important Democrat constituency.
So there is no way they are going to allow violent crime to be curbed.
Even if the criminals can still vote after they are dead.


2 posted on 11/24/2020 12:21:14 PM PST by Little Ray (The Left and Right no longer have anything in common. A House divided against itself cannot stand.)
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To: WTanner1776

As an aside, one can search Cooper’s Chronicles for lots of his writing from his gun writing days, much info and common sense.


3 posted on 11/24/2020 12:28:40 PM PST by W. (And now, more music, and Les Nessman!)
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To: WTanner1776

Publicly execute drug dealers.


4 posted on 11/24/2020 12:28:51 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: kaehurowing

Oh, the Free Republic drug dealers aren’t going to like that.


5 posted on 11/24/2020 12:31:22 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: WTanner1776

Sounds like the sort of guy you do not want to mess with….


6 posted on 11/24/2020 12:31:32 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Little Ray
we have to stop being victims.....to start, stop frequently any questionable areas....be strong...you don't really need to risk life and limb for some baseball game or a movie....

starve the beast...

and if ever attacked, fight back with all your might....they're probably intending to kill you and your loved ones anyway so you have nothing to loose...

7 posted on 11/24/2020 12:32:41 PM PST by cherry
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To: WTanner1776

in Milwaukee “when seconds count, the police are only hours away.”


8 posted on 11/24/2020 12:36:25 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: cherry

I would fight to last breath to protect home and family.
But there is a kid with 2 million dollar bond and facing trial for murder for killing two communist terrorists and wounding a third.
That is all you really need to know about the world as it is today.


9 posted on 11/24/2020 12:36:34 PM PST by Little Ray (The Left and Right no longer have anything in common. A House divided against itself cannot stand.)
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To: Little Ray
But there is a kid with 2 million dollar bond and facing trial for murder for killing two communist terrorists and wounding a third. -------- but he's alive.
10 posted on 11/24/2020 12:42:37 PM PST by SanchoP ("Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." )
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To: Little Ray

Violent criminals and their dependents, supporters, etc., are an important Democrat constituency.

In the Soviet Union, the criminal was always considered
to be politically reliable as long as they did not
prey on the state itself. This is why intellectuals
and enemies of the state were lumped in with the criminal
element which was allowed to prey on them without
punishment.

One can see parallels in our current situation where
criminals are released back into the population to
commit further crimes on the innocent populace.


11 posted on 11/24/2020 12:43:30 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: WTanner1776

Castle Rock vs. Gonzales: Cops have no duty to show and no duty to protect even if they do show.

Protect yourself since cops are far away and they may not take any action even if they do show.


12 posted on 11/24/2020 12:47:23 PM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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bttt
13 posted on 11/24/2020 12:49:32 PM PST by ELS
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To: tet68
It is a terrible and awesome thing when a man sets out to create all other men in his own image. Such became the goal and all-consuming ambition of Karl Marx. Not that he would have made each man equal to himself; in fact, it was quite the contrary. The image he hoped to construct was a great human colossus with Karl Marx as the brain and builder and all other men serving him as the ears and eyes, feet and hands, mouth and gullet. […]

… (Marx) visualized a regimented breed of Pavlovian men whose minds could be triggered into immediate action by signals from their masters. He wanted a race of men who would no longer depend upon free will, ethics, morals or conscience for guidance. Perhaps, without quite realizing it, Marx was setting out to create a race of human beings conditioned to think like criminals.

Producing such a race had been the dream of power-hungry men for more than 4,000 years. Nimrod had projected the design, Plato polished it, Saint-Simon sublimated it — now Marx materialized it.

Today this breed of criminally-conditioned man walks the earth in sufficient numbers to conquer countries or continents, to change laws and boundaries, to decree war or peace. …

— From “The Naked Communist”
Lenin’s ideas were of course not original, formed by himself alone.
14 posted on 11/24/2020 12:50:36 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: blueunicorn6

I seriously doubt there’s any drug dealers here.


15 posted on 11/24/2020 12:52:47 PM PST by BipolarBob (Trump was elected, Biden was Deep State selected.)
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To: PIF

In Minneapolis, when seconds count, you get the police’s answering service, telling you it’s a 2-3 day wait.


16 posted on 11/24/2020 12:54:05 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: BipolarBob

Just like waving a red cape in front of a goat.


17 posted on 11/24/2020 1:00:05 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Olog-hai

If one studies the methods of the communists used
during the beginning of their reign, one can see
the same process in use today...glossed over and
smoothed into a sugary shell for easier consumption.

They realized early on that the same brute methods
used on their people would not work in a nation of free men,
so have been shaping the battle field for the last
100 years and have almost succeeded. The outcome remains
to be seen...I would like to believe that they have acted
prematurely but they apparently do not think so.


18 posted on 11/24/2020 1:00:44 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: SanchoP

And his family won’t be bankrupted because of good lawyers and public charity.

But the fact that the locals didn’t give him a medal shows that society is in a bad place.


19 posted on 11/24/2020 1:02:41 PM PST by Little Ray (The Left and Right no longer have anything in common. A House divided against itself cannot stand.)
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To: tet68

Our current situation is anarcho-tyranny, where the laws are only enforced against those who try to obey them.


20 posted on 11/24/2020 1:04:56 PM PST by Little Ray (The Left and Right no longer have anything in common. A House divided against itself cannot stand.)
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