1. Rules for Gunfights Bring a gun. Better to bring two guns - and all of your friends who have guns.

2. Rules for Gunfights If you can choose what to bring to a gunfight, bring a long gun and some friends with long guns. Explosives can substitute for a few friends, but not all.

3. Rules for Gunfights Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun the caliber of which does not start with a "4".

4. Rules for Gunfights Use a gun that works EVERY TIME. "All skill is in vain when an Angel pisses in the flintlock of your musket."

5. Rules for Gunfights Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice or three times. More is better. Ammunition is cheap, life is expensive.

6. Rules for Gunfights Only hits count. The only thing worse than a miss is a slow miss.

7. Rules for Gunfights If your shooting stance is good, you're probably not moving fast enough or using cover correctly.

8. Rules for Gunfights Move away from your attacker. Distance is your friend. Lateral and diagonal movement are preferred.

9. Rules for Gunfights In ten years, nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance or tactics. They'll only remember who lived.

10. Rules for Gunfights If you aren't shooting, you should be reloading, communicating and running.

11. Rules for Gunfights Accuracy is relative: most combat shooting standards will be more dependant on the "pucker factor" than the inherent accuracy of the gun.

12. Rules for Gunfights Someday, someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it, because it is empty.

13. Rules for Gunfights Always cheat, always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.

14. Rules for Gunfights Have a plan. And have a backup plan, because the first one won't work.

15. Rules for Gunfights Use cover or concealment as much as possible.

16. Rules for Gunfights Flank your adversary when possible. Protect yours.

17. Rules for Gunfights Don't drop your guard. Especially not after you've just "won."

18. Rules for Gunfights Always tactically reload and threat scan 360 degrees.

19. Rules for Gunfights Watch their hands. Hands kill. (In God we trust. Everyone else keep your hands where we can see them.)

20. Rules for Gunfights Decide to be aggressive ENOUGH, quickly ENOUGH.

21. Rules for Gunfights The faster you finish the fight, the less shot you will get.

22. Rules for Gunfights Be polite. Be professional. Have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

23. Rules for Gunfights Be courteous to everyone - friendly to no one.

24. Rules for Gunfights Your number one Plan for Personal Security is a lifelong commitment to avoidance, deterrence, combat, breaking contact and de-escalation.

25. Rules for Gunfights Lady Luck is fickle. She changes her mind at will. NEVER rely on Luck.