Safety & Mindset

Two shootings, two very different outcomes. After the better part of thirty years in the 2nd Amendment world, I think it comes down to responsibility and self-control — and that is exactly why I carry.

Jeff Cooper’s four mental states — White, Yellow, Orange and Red — remain the clearest framework for situational awareness anyone has written down. Here is what each one means and how to move between them.

A repost from my mentor Tom Givens of Rangemaster. Texas has plenty of open land and plenty of people shooting on it — this covers the backstop and safe-direction questions most informal ranges get wrong.

When things go wrong with a firearm, they go wrong fast. These are the safety rules we drill in every class — and why complacency, not inexperience, is usually what causes an accident on the range.