Cooper’s Color Code

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Discussion on the 4 color codes of awareness, for CCW holders.
Give your helpful insight regarding coopers code of conditions.

  • White ( unaware )
  • Yellow ( observe )
  • Orange ( alert )
  • Red ( react )
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I wake up and before long, Condition Orange - not paranoid, simply situationally aware.

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I suppose ones environment could maintain an orange status, Myself I maintain Yellow..

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Earpods on and cranked listening to Rachel Maddow or The View, my tds controlling my emotions, nose buried in my laptop looking over the latest Soros supported protest signs. Condition blazingly hot pink.

Whew, glad I woke up, what a nightmare :winking_face_with_tongue:

Reality. Observant, haven’t had to increase past mild reaction in decades. Wife says it’s my eyes.

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What’s the color in between Orange and Red?
It’s my skin tone right now.
Between the Shah of NY and Abigail Stalinberger, treason is the new normal as is the color Vermilion or Blood Orange!
Orange = Alert
Blood Orange = Finger on the trigger
Red = Action

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I like the Canine code of readiness:

Low: Golden Retriever

Medium: Dalmatian

High: Doberman

Engaged: Chihuahua

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Yeah I stay in yellow. Looking for love in all the wrong places.

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Ya I stay in yellow my wife picks on me that I’m that way when sleeping also. She can’t get out of bed without me knowing it.

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I like this! @Larry130 : There MUST be a Code/Condition color in-between Dalmatian/Doberman—I’m kinda like a ‘Shepherd’ Simmering…. Neither too cold or too hot—Just READY. I see the Hooman’s come and go, gauging their reactions and My Tail twitches when I see a walking TWITCH! (Someone up to no good) Ready to STRIKE! :dog_face:)

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I almost like this but instead of blood orange - fingers on the trigger, have blood orange as react- escape, evade, avoid. since it is our duty to de-escalate the situation. Then red with it being having to react. Orange is the color for alert but that is the color when you have that feeling or something does not look right and you need to avoid it or get away. When you are in yellow stage and you get in this situation and you step it up with the orange stage and avoid everything. In the steps to escape, evade, or avoid you would be in the blood orange stage as you are watching your six and are on high alert to take steps if needed to go stage red.

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I don’t. This isn’t NORAD.

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I understand we weren’t issued a ccw cape with badge but when or is it ever admissible to present in the compressed ready for someone needing deadly assistance. Example would be great. I have no doubt assisting a downed officer would be considered admissible in a court of law.

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I am generally in Yellow when out of the house.

No earbuds, face in my phone, trying to casually check out my surroundings.

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My CCW instructor tells us to mind our own business except to assist LE in distress.

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It seems USCCA has written a piece on this scenario as written here:

## Good Samaritan or Vigilante?

Explaining why you came to the aid of someone else involves additional factors. Was the person a family member or someone you believed to be a victim? Someone else you knew personally (i.e. a neighbor or co-worker)? A complete stranger?

If the alleged victim is known to you, persuading a jury that you feared for his or her safety is less difficult. But articulating your reasons for coming to the aid of a complete stranger depends on the circumstances and the people involved.

One example might be a woman screaming “HELP!” in the parking lot of a shopping mall as two men try to wrestle her into a van. You yell, “Stop! Leave her alone!” and point your firearm at them. They run off. Your actions have a good chance of being seen as reasonable by most jurors.

However, suppose that when the suspects fled, you did not immediately go to check on the status of the victim. Instead, you chased after the attackers, and your pursuit ended in a shooting incident where one or more of the suspects were wounded or killed.

My words below:

I suppose common sense is always a factor when legally holding a firearm, one thing I’ve come to understand better in my 3 years of having a CCW license, is that it’s truly serious business to have a loaded weapon attached to ones body, Whether to defend myself or loved ones or even a complete stranger, that these codes of condition, I find is probably the most important lesson to remember.
I almost feel like I’d need to receive a severe wound before a court would consider my action justified.

That’s why I focus on the concept regularly that the firearm stays in the holster and only comes to compressed ready, pointed in a non threatening position, while warning the attacker, Granted that could be a split second.

I thank my instructor which is USCCA approved, for reminding me the lack of rights we as civilians really have in the court of law pertaining to what is truly justified.

So with that, Orange may be hand near the firearm, Orange Red is compressed ready while Red is stopping the threat.

Hopefully none of us will ever have to get to that point.

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Observe, always.

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Along the way, someone — I don’t know who — added the concept of a fifth color which they called “black.” It is described as “frozen and unable to act.” Obviously, a serious concern and a very good reason to train often.

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:grimacing: “black” sounds like the victim is deceased.

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  • Black (froze, deceased)

  • White ( unaware )

  • Yellow ( observe )

  • Orange ( alert )

  • Red ( react )

Or, between white and yellow :man_shrugging:t4:

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Yes, between white and yellow is the best place :laughing: Yellow and beyond would be in the stages of situational awareness categories. White (unaware) :collision: leads to Black (froze, deceased)

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