if you choose to enforce social
boundaries recognize
that criminals don't have the same
social boundaries you do
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hi everybody welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection i'm your
host
john korea today's video comes to us
from harris county texas
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trip guy holding the bags in the middle
of the screen had a verbal confrontation
inside the store with these three guys
on the far right
plus a couple of more guys that were
with them because they tried to cut in
line and he said hey man the lion's back
there
and then they made fun of him and made
fun of his hair and all these things and
had a verbal confrontation with him
now he's got his his purchases here and
he is headed out and they are going to
then grab a hold of him
sorry that pause thing is in the
original nothing i can do about it punch
him a couple times there and then knock
him down and now start
kicking him in the face in the head in
the chest and
and coming up on him trying to like grab
his phone and stuff
and and then you're going to see this
one guy who's one of the originals come
out of the store as well and kick him in
the teeth there
and then walk it off now the guy if you
go read the news story linked in the
description
was mildly injured and denied treatment
the cops are still looking for all these
guys
thankfully he wasn't badly harmed lots
of lessons to come today
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biggest and first lesson today is to
practice de-escalation escape and
avoidance
in your world and in your day-to-day
don't get into ego fights friends
i really want you to think about you
know just saying hey man hey guys there
was a line back here can i ask you to be
nice or whatever
and and using again language that lets
people de-escalate themselves
and building rapport with people and
using that verbal judo
to try to avoid every encounter you can
because instead when you
you know stand your ground verbally and
you say hey you don't have the right to
do that i'm gonna do this thing whatever
then that can put you in a place where
they decide that they need to retaliate
because this is social violence this is
hey he offended us we have to go get
back after him and if you can avoid that
i would recommend it
i'd also recommend that you tool up and
be ready for multiple attackers like
this
now as the action begins you see these
guys and what we have to think about in
this moment
is this guy's got grocery bags in his
hand and he has three guys who are
fanning out and flanking him so we have
a significant disparity of force here
and i know somebody's gonna ask me well
john
you know at this point right here could
i have drawn a gun and shot these guys
well i definitely think given the
totality of the circumstances that
perhaps a defensive display of a firearm
depending on your state laws and you
need to check your state laws in order
to talk about that
might have been appropriate far more
appropriate in my opinion drop those
grocery bags if these guys are coming on
you and if you have a less lethal tool
now
is the time to use it it's not time to
think about it these three guys that we
had an argument with approached me in a
menacing manner and fanned out and i
started blessing the deserving with the
hot sauce
because again if you end up being wrong
in that case
that you they haven't even injured
anyone you have simply you know
dispensed a little bit of pain so that
would have been the time because
otherwise what happens here
is you notice the attack comes pretty
quick it's not time to to mess around
because this guy here
waited until our guy is looking away
from him and this is an
absolute sucker punch so this is the one
that can do you
incredible harm because you don't see it
coming so you don't have any time to
tense
which leads to significant concussion
you know a concussive force
on the brain because you don't get a
chance to try to defend or slip it or
any of those things
utter sucker punch could have knocked
him out cold and is gonna hit him
really stinking hard now of course three
guys beating on you at this point you
say well wait a minute john could i draw
a firearm here the answer there
is almost certainly yes when you have
three guys that are all beating you in
the face like this
you have a high likelihood of needing to
go to the hospital highly you know
that's expected to cause great bodily
harm or even death but of course the
answer is and the other question is
can you get a gun in the fight in this
case and that would take you getting
some significant space now our dude
backed up a little bit here
but now he's got four bad guys coming
and he's still got his grocery bags in
his hands
so again that idea that says the
groceries are completely secondary at
this point get your hands up and in the
fight
and if he did have a firearm on him yes
i think that he definitely could
have drawn it in this particular case
but now you've got an entangled fight
and the bad guys might get their hands
on the gun as well
so if you did have one this is the time
where you need to use those retention
skills
and get beyond your square range skills
into some retention gun fighting skills
now of course that next punch is the one
that really got him and put him down and
now
you have multiple attackers who are
going to end up kicking a man who is
down with a shod foot that is aggravated
assault for sure
and of course you know say are you going
to step into a third party encounter if
you saw that
because at this point our defender our
victim here probably couldn't get a gun
in the fight and at this point you know
it's going to get stuffed and that gun's
going to get taken away from him so
recognize a gun may not be an available
tool to you
like i said when they start kicking him
in the head here this rises for sure
multiple attackers on the ground
aggravated assault for sure and and
again if he draws a firearm or somebody
else draws a firearm to defend him i
don't think anybody would have
any problems with that at this point
that would be highly reasonable thing to
do
to stop them from stomping him in the
head in the chest
in the neck in the face so so that's
where these things kind of rise where
now of course i know sea spray would not
be an appropriate tool a gun would be
the right tool here
for sure so now again the guy just said
he just weathered the storm because he
knew that bad things were coming
but recognize you've got to keep
thinking because he just sits there and
of course he's hurt
but this last kick is every bit
aggravated assault again a down
person who's up against the car and you
kick him in the face like that
this is you know definitely highly
likely to cause death or great bodily
harm which is why
even when things look like they've
chilled out you've got to take steps to
protect yourself and the other part here
nobody's coming to save you nobody else
at this store is going to step in and
help you nobody is going to drive these
guys off
you have to be the one who is the
primary agent in your own rescue because
no one else will so these are the
self-defense lessons that need to come
out of this
thank god this guy wasn't badly hurt
thank god that he was able to get out
there and even refuse medical treatment
because he wasn't really badly hurting
he didn't want to go to the hospital in
those things
but this was highly likely to cause him
great bodily harm or even death
so let's do the pre-attack thing and
de-escalate escape and evade let's make
sure we've got a less lethal tool that
we can deploy
before they attack us something like an
oc spray and let's make sure that we
understand
when deadly force is authorized we may
not even be able to get the gun
out at that point so we better have a
high level of skill if we want to cover
our asp