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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

I slap people in public, especially erring policemen. I can even challenge them to a duel. I am a gunfighter.

If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle?

At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.

I have just come from a couple of raids, where we had a very lively time, and some of them had to pull their guns. I found it necessary to punch a few sports myself.

It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.

Every boy in a free country ought to be instructed in boxing, wrestling, and the use of weapons. Every young man ought to be drilled. Every householder ought, at least, to have a right to own a rifle, and should know how to make cartridges.

When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars in which he perceived enemies, ingeniously rigged up a shotgun in his house, trained on the inside of his front door so as to widely distribute any intruder.

When I first went to school, I was fighting all the time. The soldier mentality was still in me. I kept getting expelled. I found it hard to take instructions from anyone who wasn't a military commander.