people that say that crime only happens
in poor areas today's video comes to us
from one of the wealthiest ZIP codes in
America
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hi friends welcome to today's lesson
here at active Self Protection I'm your
host John Korea today's video comes to
us from Sherman Oaks California today's
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upper class neighborhood here but it's
got crime like anywhere else and watch
these two guys kind of come by decide
that this guy and his lady at the table
are their people and so the dude's just
gonna pull a gun out of his waistband
and show it to them and be like yo man I
want your jewelry because guy is
apparently flaunting a pretty nice watch
so the grab man's gonna grab that gonna
grab the ladies watch as well these guys
are gonna run off now let's watch it one
more time so just enjoying their meal or
whatever chilling out now watch second
guy comes by they establish a hey these
are the people that I think we want to
Target so he's just going to now turn
around absolutely no shame though of
course he's wearing a mask putting the
hood over his face and that's acceptable
in this day and age she's going to show
the gun with the stendo they are going
to give up their stuff robbers walk away
we get lessons
this town sits in Los Angeles county in
California you want to guess how many
CCW permits have been issued in that
county
238 as of 2020. I don't have 2021
numbers I wonder why that doesn't deter
crime let's think about lessons a couple
of start things on this one number one I
it is a general truism that if you live
in a nicer neighborhood you live in a
higher class neighborhood money
generally will isolate you from crime
and make it less likely you're a victim
of violent crime such as this but it's
not foolproof 100 we could see that here
and again Sherman Oaks is a nice town
except for it's it's got like you know
27th percentile in terms of safety it's
pretty low on the safety scale number
two you're gonna be out in those places
hey I get it you want to have nice
jewelry show nice stuff have your nice
watch and all those things just
recognize it can make you a victim and
number three nobody is like Jack Reacher
in reality or you know Jason Bourne
who's going to be able to defend
themselves from everything sometimes you
put yourself in a spot where the bad guy
gets to jump on you and you're just
gonna have to take an l and I think
that's kind of what we see here so watch
now these guys are kind of looking
around and dude kind of pays attention
to them a little bit but when he pulls a
gun and starts showing it to him what
are you going to do in this particular
situation now quite frankly
the guy here who's who he is focused on
probably doesn't have a lot of
opportunity here he is his opportunity
here is purposeful compliance to be able
to maybe earn an opportunity to launch a
counter Ambush but I want you to notice
that the lady here actually is is not
being targeted she's not being paid
attention to so a lot of times ladies
you can actually be a much more
effective self-defender because if she
has a 1.5 draw the first shot here she
can get this guy and there's not a whole
lot he's going to be able to do about it
because he's turned his back even a 2.0
draw the first shot here she has him
whereas the guy in this particular case
number one dude has his eyeballs on him
and the gun on him number two he's got a
grab man right next to him so our guy
here might have been able to try a
disarm attempt but from a seated
position that is a low percentage
attempt probably better here to try to
buy your way out of it by giving the guy
your watch so ladies please hear me you
are an important part of self-defense
and you can't just offload that
responsibility to the guy in your life
because you may be the one who needs to
respond because because they're going to
pay a lot of attention to him it's not
for a long while they actually pay
attention to her now again in this
particular case okay fine gave him the
watches whatever those watches were I'm
not sure and and then they run off so he
bought his his you know life on that
stuff guy ended up not shooting him
nobody's hurt but they're out the money
out the watches and that's not okay
obviously aggravated assault and
aggravated robbery here is egregious and
wrong but the big lessons out of this
one number one you're not going to win
them all number two compliance might be
the best bet but number three ladies you
are so important because if she was a
self-defender if she was properly armed
and if she had her tools on her person
she might have been able to be the one
that stopped this guy from being a
deadly threat to everybody in that
restaurant so ladies you have a job to
do in covering your asp