Quotes from Chris Bird

I read somewhere there's a list of things that you do, and one of them is that you attack the attacker. He can't shoot everybody. Everybody's afraid to do anything, so everybody gets shot.

It's deeply damaging to portray fit, fully-formed adults as children who need to be protected. We should be raising them to understand that there will be moments in life when you need to protect yourself — and, in a 'horrible' world, there may come moments when you have to choose between protecting yourself or others," Steyn wrote.

When trying to persuade a school board to endorse the program, three is the critical number, said Irvine. "If you get one person going in to the board, he is the one crazy person. He's easy to ignore. If you get two people going in, well, the crazy guy's got a buddy, so we can still ignore [them]. But if you get three, that's a committee. It's hard to ignore a committee. A committee makes recommendations; you've at least got to consider it.

victim-resolved incidents result in far fewer fatalities than shooter-resolved incidents. Additionally, police-resolved shootings produce more casualties than victim-resolved shootings.

it is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. And even if your state allows open carry, keep your gun concealed. If you wear it openly, it is like having a target on your back; you will be the first to be shot.

More than ever, we ordinary civilians are the foot soldiers in the war on terrorism.

Immediate action taken by personnel who are on-site when the shooting starts is the most effective way to stop the killing.

The biggest problem with gun-free zones is that they aren't free of guns. They are the places of choice for killers and terrorists to rack up their totals of killed and wounded in places like Columbine, Virginia Tech, Fort Hood, and the Charleston AME Church. They are killing zones.

confirmation of the advice of John Benner and others not to give a statement to law enforcement right after the shooting. This is why it has become standard practice not to interview an officer involved in a shooting for a day or two after the event. What is good for the officer should be good for the public.

seventy-six-year-old Professor Liviu Librescu, but he was from a different generation. He sacrificed himself by holding the door while ordering his students to escape through the windows. He understood the responsibilities of leadership — the leader, like the captain of a ship, saves himself last.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival." — Winston Churchill

I would want it to be learned that basically to do something. Hiding or sitting back is not going to accomplish anything. And the gunman would have been successful if my friend Spencer had not gotten up. I just want that lesson to be learned going forward. In times of terror like that, to please do something, don't just stand by and watch.

A gun-free zone is not even a consideration; all it does is it restricts law-abiding citizens. It doesn't do a darn thing for the criminal element.

first responders are usually not the law-enforcement officers or the paramedics that follow them, but the ordinary citizens who happen to be on the scene at the time