Jeff Cooper

Jeff Cooper
John Dean "Jeff" Cooperwas a United States Marine, the creator of the "modern technique" of handgun shooting, and an expert on the use and history of small arms...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCelebrity
Date of Birth10 May 1920
CountryUnited States of America
matter self-defense ifs
It's a matter of will. If you know that you can keep your head, and that you must keep your head, you probably will keep your head.
thinking answers self-defense
Now how do we cultivate an aggressive response? I think the answer is indignation... Your response, if attacked, must not be fear, it must be anger.
speed salvation self-defense
Therefore, if you are attacked, retaliate instantly. Be sudden. Be quick. Speed is your salvation.
self long doe
Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing.
self-defense precision ifs
Under any sort of attack, keep cool. And if you must shoot, shoot with precision.
worry action self-defense
Let your attacker worry about his life. Don't hold back. Strike no more after he is incapable of further action, but see that he is stopped.
moral offensive self-defense
Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive.
serious self-defense harm
On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.
safety up-to-you self-defense
Your physical safety is up to you, as it really always has been.
felons self-defense lives-of-others
If a felon attacks you and lives, he will reasonably conclude that he can do it again. By submitting to him, you not only imperil your own life, but you jeopardize the lives of others.
fighting self defense
The one who fights back retains his dignity and his self-respect.
causes consideration self-defense
Anyone who willfully and maliciously attacks another without sufficient cause deserves no consideration.
justified victim self-defense
We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.
defense self-defense explosives
The best personal defense is an explosive counterattack.