Quotes from Marc MacYoung

Deadly force is authorized when there is an immediate and otherwise unavoidable danger of death or grave bodily harm to the innocent.

It's easy to spot the howling, threatening drunk, but a mugger who announces himself with "excuse me" is far more dangerous and harder to spot.

It's over, I won." That's fine and dandy, but most times it isn't true. It isn't the first round that counts; it's the total at the end that decides the winner.

If you have time to run away, then I submit that you are not in immediate danger of anything and getting the heck out of there should be your answer.

Entirely too many people mistake confidence for competence.

what's down deep remains amazingly similar. It's not whom you hate, but rather that the system is designed for you to hate someone.

whole shitload of very dangerous poisons and powerful hallucinogens are hidden behind a lot of mumbo jumbo.

The bad news is if someone is charging you, it can take multiple shots before the collective trauma causes him to collapse. In the meantime, he can still potentially close the distance and bury a knife in your chest. That's known as the "Deadman's Ten" (when someone fatally wounded can still keep attacking anywhere from ten seconds up to two minutes).

There's an old Irish saying: Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose.

By the way, it's harder to become less tough once you have it than it is to become tough.

Radar, then, is the first step in making people decide that it's not worth it to mess with you.

I consider logic to be like a roundhouse kick: limited in use and effectiveness, predictable, easy to defend against, and just generally tired from being overused.

The idea that you have to be able to prove something for it to be real has run amuck in our judicial system to the point that these days you damn near need a videotape to get a conviction

The banquet scene out of the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is priceless.)

Here's a hint about multiple attackers, the guy talking is usually the distraction.