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CCC is a group of NRA Certified Instructors in Colorado providing NRA Basic Pistol
(needed for the Colorado Concealed Carry permit) and NRA Personal Protection classes.
We are dedicated to our threefold purpose in teaching:
1) Safety. Firearm safety is of utmost importance. Every firearm accident
is the either the result of ignorance - not knowing how to safely store and use
firearms, or carelessness- knowing the rules but not caring enough to follow
them.
Firearm safety rules have been written in blood. More people were killed in
the migration West by their own firearms through accidents, then all the settlers
ever killed by hostile Indians.
CCC is dedicated to making the community safer from firearm accidents through education.
2) Ethics. At CCC we believe that every law-abiding American citizen has both
the right and ultimate responsibility for his own safety and the safety of his or
her family and friends. Although Law Enforcment makes every effort to respond to
911 calls, the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled it is a, "fundamental
principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general
duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen"
(Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. Ct. of Ap., 1981). Ultimately
the responsibility falls to each individual to be prepared to protect and defend
themselves and their loved ones.
However, we at CCC are also deeply concerned about why each individual attending
training for the purpose of obtaining a CCW permit wishes to carry a concealed firearm.
Each of us (at CCC) hope and pray that the last thing we will ever have to do
is exercise our right to use deadly force to defend ourselves - we don't even
want to have to show our firearm.
Some people wish to carry a gun for the wrong reasons - perhaps to live up to some
"John Wayne" ideal, for example. We are dedicated, to the best of our ability,
to screen those applicants who apply for training and to teach the ethics and laws
involved in the use of deadly force.
3) Accuracy. Part of the ethics of discharging a firearm include the
responsibilty to make sure that your shots hit what you are aiming for and do not
travel beyond the target to possibly strike innocent bystanders. We teach
"Defensible Accuracy", which is the ability to place all your shots into an 8 1/2 x 11 inch piece of paper at 15 feet or less. This is a standard that is
acheivable by everyone with the proper training.
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