5 Quotes & Sayings By Massad Ayoob

Massad Ayoob is an expert firearms trainer and author of six books, including The Armed Citizen: Reflections of a Black Gunslinger. He serves as the President and CEO of the Massad Ayoob Group, a private consulting firm that teaches firearms safety and training. Massad is also a nationally recognized speaker, police trainer and firearms instructor. He holds a degree in criminal justice and worked as an officer with the NYPD for ten years before leaving to become a firearms and defensive tactics instructor for the New York City Police Department Read more

Massad's work has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including The Huffington Post, Fox News, The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, Newsweek Magazine and Sports Illustrated.

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A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man. Massad Ayoob
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Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a horror of inflicting that nightmarish, never forgotten damage on a fellow human being. Perhaps the only more terrifying prospect is that such a fate should befall us or our loved ones. This is why we, a representative cross-section of America's population, keep deadly weapons for personal defense. Massad Ayoob
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Firearms, if you think about it, are power tools. They drill holes in things and chew things up. That’s their purpose. The purpose of the user is, quite simply, to puncture and destroy the right things and not the wrong things. Massad Ayoob
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In the end, the focus on safety should be credited to the entire firearms-owning community, the “gun culture” if you will. Massad Ayoob