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us hi everybody Welcome to today's
lesson here at active self- protection
I'm your host as always John Korea
today's video comes to us from back in
the teens and it is out of maranville
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the link below so this clerk served 30
years in the military served several
tours in combat so when this uh customer
is going to come in from the right hand
side here in just a second and Rob the
place by grabbing a gun he ain't having
it he's carried his gun for some time
and so he puts it in that guy's face who
slowly backs out uh the news stories
I've Linked In the descriptions uh the
most I had was that our clerk had
actually identified him in a lineup but
I don't know what charges he faced so
you can see in there pull a gun our
clerk put his stand out and then uh pull
his own firearm and drive the guy off
wins the day got pretty famous for this
when it happened again it's a while ago
but we're going to learn some lessons
finally today's video actually leads me
to a question that I have for you so
let's talk about it in the comments you
leave me with your comment about whether
you think that it was the best thing for
him to just point the firearm at the guy
or should he have used it in the moment
and ended that threat more quickly what
do you think first I'm very glad that
this clerk was carrying his firearm that
day if you go read the news stories that
I've Linked In the description the owner
of this store said this is just kind of
part of who he is and it's what he does
every day and I think that's great if
you have the ability to be armed I'd
strongly suggest that you do now he
looks to be open carrying I generally
recommend concealed carrying over open
carrying but at any rate he had his
tools on his person and I think that's
great if you're going to do that you
better have a mindset to be able to use
it as well as the skills to be able to
and this guy had both so kudos to him
for being prepared on that day next it's
just a regular day until it's not right
so recognize that the bad guy always
gets to set the time and the the
attention the place of where the attack
is going to be and that's what we see
right here so dude is pulling a gun now
of course if our clerk just goes for his
gun right now now it's a gunfight and he
is way behind so you got to think about
how what's my best response I don't know
what his best response is going to be in
this particular case but I think he did
pretty darn well given everything
recognize though that going in and
trying to stuff that draw is very much
more complicated because the presence of
the counter the counter makes this a
very difficult thing but so if you're
going to try to do that and stuff is
draw or keeping from pointing the gun at
you because you want to cover the
distance and then deflect right so kind
of start the 5Ds plus one while you give
yourself some time to get the gun in the
fight okay fine but you're going to have
to go a long way and that's what we see
from the clerk here he's going to reach
out and try to kind of stuff that guy's
draw and I think actually that's a very
good strategy that said though you got
to reach over the counter to do that and
he can take a half a step back pull that
gun up and use it on you pretty quick so
you don't have a lot of time here to do
that recognize that this is a delay
strategy at the best now the clerk did
say it didn't scare him that much he'd
had guns pointed at him enough when he
was in combat as well as you know
situations he' been in as a correction
officer stuff like that said it didn't
bother him all that much so a cool head
prevails every day of the week and is
always good for you now then I also want
you to notice here that that again this
gu guys's got backed that gun backed in
a way so so when we see somebody with a
firearm and go going to threaten us with
it they want to keep our hand off that
gun now clerk is then using his other
hand get the gun out and I will say this
all the time a very rapid draw is a
critical skill for self- Defenders to
have you want to get that gun out
quickly because you're just uh taking
time up that the bad guy can do bad
things to you so learn to get that gun
out as quickly as you possibly can clerk
did a pretty good job of that here and I
do want you to recognize a couple things
about that here number one he has his
finger on the trigger even though he has
decided that he is not going to fire yet
now I get it he can fire in in a very
brief second it's about a tenth of a
second or you know maybe two ten0 of a
second difference but much safer to get
your finger high and on the register
rather than on the trigger so you don't
get startled and shoot when you don't
want to number two that guy can reach
out with his hand now and grab a hold of
that gun as well so recognize that
that's a little bit dangerous you might
want to keep that gun back and away from
him a little bit though you're in super
close proximity here and our clerk is is
now using the gun as an intimidation
tool very difficult for us to do here
but notice that our robber decides you
know what I'm not going to have it this
day so so in this case the mere presence
of a firearm was enough to to save the
day to win the fight and sometimes we'
got to do that I do think that in your
defensive training spend a little bit of
time drawing the firearm and not firing
draw the firearm and present it draw the
firearm and issue commands because not
every defensive shooting actually
requires shooting the gun a lot do but
sometimes they don't like this one
didn't so again know how to draw and
issue commands and not fire and then
finally no one it's time to put the gun
back away okay I think the clerk did a
fine job of that but let's make sure
that we're doing our best to keep our
finger off the trigger of course this
guy earned national attention for this
and rightly so he handled himself well
didn't end up having to shoot a guy but
defended himself excellently with a
firearm so kudos to him he covered his
asp