Safety Sunday #5: How many safety rules? When I began instructing at the Bullet Hole Shooting Complex some 5 years ago I created a list of firearm safety rules I would email to students when they scheduled a class. That list grew to many pages in length. To create order out of the chaos I began placing the rules into categories: Rules related to firearm handling, rules related to gun storage, rules related to ammunition storage, rules related to firearm maintenance, to targets, to shooting, and so forth. Ultimately I recognized few were rules and many were good bits of advise. Those rules morphed into the two blocks of instruction in the Basic Pistol class- Firearm Safety, and Responsible Firearm Ownership. The problem with a mass of firearm safety rules is that safety becomes diluted, burdensome, overwhelming. Safety, should be simple. Col. Cooper maybe should have stopped with, All guns are always loaded. Even if a gun is not loaded you still treat them as if they are. Simple, inviolate. No excuses. No exceptions. All safety violations can be traced back to someone failing to treat the gun as loaded and therefor cable of killing. How do you treat the gun when its loaded? You never point it at anything you are unwilling to destroy and keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the trigger. Two simple rules, one over-arching admonishment. The Deadeye Method Better, Smarter, Safer
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 01:35:29 +0000
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