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hi friends welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection your host
as always it's me john korea today's
video comes to us from houston texas i
got an email from a fan out of brazil
who told me that i was pronouncing it
wrong it's actually sao paulo do not j
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lady going into the store on the right
you can see two suspects cars there that
are both working in concert so now she's
gonna go inside the store and they're
gonna position themselves a while trying
to find the right place to park and not
be very you know uh
chill about it they're just gonna kind
of mess around for a little while now
she comes out watch the second car the
silver car kind of come up and block her
in well she kind of just stands there
and then what's gonna happen now she's
gonna watch several guys come out of
that car here and start to uh you know
talk to her and go yo give me your stuff
whatever and she kind of just stands
there it's a bit of an odd thing here
because now the guy in the pink hoodie
there grabs a gun and that makes the
dude on the hood of the car next to him
back up well he's like hey give me your
wallet give me your phone whatever the
guy starts doing that stuff and you're
gonna see him get punched in the face
for his efforts there they're gonna grab
this lady's purse and then jump back in
their car and both of the getaway
vehicles are going to speed off here
we actually have one more angle of this
from the front of the store where you
watch them both come up now watch the
guy who's just kind of a bystander he
was not the initial victim in this
particular one they're gonna look and
start pulling guns he's gonna try to get
away but this other guy's gonna be like
nah man i want your stuff too so he's
gonna start giving stuff like start
taking his coat off or whatever when he
doesn't give it fast enough they punch
him in the face he goes to the back of
his car they take the rest of the stuff
they want and they run off we got a
couple important lessons out of this one
so hang in there with me geez man crazy
stuff here some important lessons to
think about would you think about
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transitional spaces are where we always
have to at least be prepared and pay
attention to our world i think another
lesson here is man you are your primary
agent in your own rescue so you must
carry your firearm with you at all times
and and if you have the ability to be
armed i think you should be if at all
possible okay next thing here is again
she's just kind of loitering here in
this transitional space i really
wouldn't recommend that i don't know
what it was that made her just kind of
sit there but of course you'd much
rather get the heck out of there as fast
as you can now notice as well as they
are coming up now now i don't know
exactly when they announced the robbery
but remember maintaining space from
somebody who is an unknown contact is
smart so here he is closed all the way
down from public space into social space
and he's about to start to to you know
encroach on personal space so keeping
that person away from you you know
saying hey man that's close enough or
whatever managing that contact which
might give you a little bit of
information in order to better protect
yourself earlier might have been very
useful here now of course i think he
already has a gun in his hand or at
least nearby him at this point
so i don't know that it would have been
much better but notice here that the guy
in the pink hoodie now goes over and
grabs a gun from one of his buddies and
this is a tactic that we're seeing more
and more among armed robbers is kind of
this gun sharing thing that one of them
has it and carries it with him but it's
the second one that grabs it from him
and gets aggressive with it now that
said this is an opportunity if you start
seeing this go down when they are
exchanging the firearm if you're like
hey man i have a very quick draw to
first shot you see him start exchanging
it that's a time that you might have to
be able to get ahead and launch a
counter ambush i'm not saying she had
that in this case now notice as well
that this dude decides nope i'm gonna
get the heck out of there but he becomes
kind of a victim of opportunity in this
particular case and of course the other
thing i want to talk about here is i
hear people all the time say well you
know just comply and give them what they
want and they won't hurt you well that's
not necessarily true number one i think
he's trying to comply but number two
he's not able to comply as quickly or as
fully as this guy wants and that ends up
with him getting punched in the face so
again just because you are compliant
does not in any capacity mean that they
are not willing to hurt you anybody who
points a gun at you is willing to hurt
you they are threatening you with deadly
harm and so assuming that they won't
hurt you if you give them stuff i think
is a bad assumption that's not what we
see in real life all the time
now i want you to notice here as well we
have multiple guns pointed at this lady
and she's trying to hold onto her purse
i get that couple things on that number
one ladies don't recommend you carry
your firearms in your purse if at all
possible that's a place where bad guys
know you keep your valuables your phone
your wallet your cash your stuff so
keeping your firearm in there bad idea
because when they steal your purse or
grab it from you they've got your
firearm as well and you're gonna have a
very hard time drawing that again
especially once it's a matter of con you
know a contest here secondly you got an
awful lot of bad guys pointing guns here
probably compliance is the best strategy
for her once that situation's going down
only when you have an option to get
ahead is when you could do something
better than that now notice here it's
when the guy grabs the gun that our dude
who was a bystander kind of reacts but
recognized why was this a problem in the
first place because he's sitting on his
phone in a transitional space i would
strongly recommend not doing that i mean
at the very least be inside your car
with the doors locked and the engine
running if you are going to kind of sit
and chill and check on your phone
but much better than that don't be in
the transitional space to begin with
while you are loitering it's a dangerous
place to loiter now he is responding if
he had had his own firearm on him known
how to use it been ready for it he had
some opportunities here but those
opportunities are going to evaporate
pretty quick so if you don't take the
right action soon enough then you
probably don't have the opportunity to
do a whole lot from there now that said
had this guy wanted to try a disarm this
is probably the time to do that but i
want you to notice that our perp has
that left arm out guarding that firearm
so if you're going to do that remember
the distance comes first you cannot
launch a disarm attempt from over the
other side of a leveraging arm you have
to control the distance first and i
don't know from the angle that we see
here if he would be able to do that i
think he might have been able to if he
wanted to but don't let the first time
that you try something like that be in
the middle of an armed robbery get on
the mats in practice work on actual
disarms that work against actually
resisting opposition now of course he
gets popped here and i love what our guy
does here he goes back to the back of
his vehicle as he gets away and tries to
get away from these guys and and that
actually makes him leave him alone
they've already got his phone in this
case he does have an opportunity here
had he been armed at this point to
launch a counter ambush because he's
hidden behind the vehicle and so again
could have gotten his own firearm out
here as well and and
again why do you not have a firearm on
your person you're living in the great
state of texas you should you know again
constitutional carry for gracious stakes
you don't even need the permission of
the crown you can just do that why you
wouldn't carry a firearm in the state of
texas is beyond me i mean personal
reasons and i get all that i do like
here that they both finally did escape
they got out of the danger zone they ran
as soon as they reasonably could and
that was a good choice so make sure we
know when our counter ambushing
opportunities exist let's make sure we
watch out about these transitional
spaces don't get caught up as a victim
of opportunity and cover our asp