Professor Elam

Weekend   August 17, 2024

a couple won $3,300 at a casino, were watched, and then followed and shot for the money.  Thank goodness they survived. The attackers were arrested and charged.

Read trhe story here.

Happy to have won no doubt they were not watching their surroundings to see if they were followed.

In My Conqer Accounting ppt, I refer to Jeff Cooper's Color Code. The code is an indicator of awareness. Please remember this at all times. Imagine that with all the cameras around two

criminals ignored the cameras and shot two people for a mere $3300. Now they face prison, clearly the crooks were irrational. That lack fo reason will not save you life in sucha situation,  Jeff Cooper's Color Code might!

Here it is.

Cooper's color code

During training in the modern technique Cooper emphasized that readiness was everything.

Cooper asserted that if the individual weren't prepared to encounter danger at all times, the technique used and the pistol selected were of no consequence. To underscore this point and give students a reference with which to evaluate their own behavior, Cooper developed a color code of readiness, consisting of four states of readiness:

• White – Readiness is non-existent. The individual's readiness is unaware (same a would be if he were asleep, or reading a book, or otherwise without any perception of his surroundings or movements within them).
• Yellow – Readiness is aware, but unspecific. The individual is aware of his surroundings and monitoring what is happening in those surroundings.
• Orange – Readiness is a specific alert. The individual is aware of any activity or person within his surroundings which presents a threat.
• Red – Readiness to face danger. Fight mode (although not necessarily shooting yet). The individual is aware of a specific immediate threat, which will likely result in the use of deadly force. Individual will shoot if his predetermined "mental trigger" is tripped.

Cooper's color code is frequently mistaken as an indicator of danger rather than an indicator of readiness. The color code was developed as a mental crutch to get over the resistance of using deadly force (it is not a warning system). The student may be in grave danger, but may be asleep and thus his level of readiness is "Condition White", with readiness being unaware. For most individuals, even those whose occupations take them to dangerous regions, awareness condition Yellow will be the condition they spend 99% of their waking lives within. Specific threats, leading to readiness in Condition Orange (specific alert) would be rare. Condition Red (fight) is even more rare.

This color code of readiness has been adopted by third parties, including the US Marine Corps.

To promote situational awareness, Cooper endorsed what is known as the "Dollar Club" – Gunsite "family members" were expected to be members. When two members of the Dollar Club met, the one who saw and recognized the other first could claim a dollar from the less-aware member.^{[citation needed]} Cooper also stated that any family member who got a traffic ticket should pay it, because a properly aware driver should see police cars in time to avoid citation.^{[citation needed]}

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