when you're protecting vulnerable people
you have got to not just think fast but
act fast
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here at active self-protection I'm your
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this one have had an argument about a
block away just earlier you can see the
guy in the white shirt is coming up
because he knows the other guys inside
this convenience store so he's going to
come up and like not let them see his
hand touch the thing pulls up and pulls
a gun on the other guy who pushes away
on it and then runs off the guy sits
there and tries to get the gun to work
but it won't and apparently he is you
know not very good with a gun see it one
more time he puts it up our dad pushes
it away while holding his little one and
then runs off now if you go read the
news stories that I have shared on this
one our perp was charged with aggravated
assault for this but the victim didn't
show up to his hearing and therefore the
charges were dropped we're gonna think
about lessons man incredible work by Dad
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training first things first here be a
good Saint sober moral prudent person we
do not solve conflicts with violence
adults use words and if you disagree
with somebody then you just go on about
your business next I think it is
hilarious that our perp here is trying
to use his shirt to like keep his
fingerprints off of the you know the the
door handle here not thinking about the
fact that this convenience store
probably has 15 cameras in his faces on
them and the victim is known to him and
to his family so it's not like he's not
going to get seen in here but criminals
aren't necessarily Mensa members so this
is the kind of stuff that we see just
recognize that if you're in public
there's a pretty good chance you're
being recorded and act accordingly now
he comes in on here and I want to pay
attention to the fact that our dad knows
what's up uh and knows that this guy is
a problem but doesn't necessarily know
that he's got a gun now that said when
you are a parent I would strongly
suggest that as you conceal Carrie which
I would strongly suggest that you do
that you carry the child on the side
that allows you to do a single-handed
draw because a baby is the only thing
you don't drop if you have in your hands
and therefore again now this Dad
obviously doesn't have a shirt on so
that's not going to happen for him but
as a lefty this would be the right side
for me for you know me to get a
single-handed draw if you are
right-handed the opposite now the guy
comes in and notice here that this is an
indicator that he doesn't know what the
heck he's doing with the firearm because
a he's pointing the gun directly at his
support and B trying to figure out how
the operation of the Gun Works that's a
clue for you it is time to either get
the heck out of there or get in the
fight fully now of course if our dad is
a concealed carrier this is the time you
get your gun out you go to work on this
guy who is threatening you with a gun if
you don't have a firearm either get out
of there maybe there's a door on the
other side or something like that or you
get in the fight and our dad here
chooses in this moment that he is going
to get in the fight another point for
Dad here is you notice he's got what
looks like his cell phone like a flip
phone or you know in his hand or
something like that you've got to drop
what's in your hands when it's time to
self-defend when it's time to defend
yourself drop what's in your hands of
course not including the baby you cannot
drop the child in this kind of a
circumstance you're highly likely to
cause your baby a significant injury if
you do that so drop what's in your hands
if it's not a baby and then use those
hands to go to work because when you
practice a 5D spot plus one if you don't
he steps in here controls the distance
and then tries to dominate but he can't
grab a hold of the gun he can't dominate
The Gun the hand with the gun the arm
with the gun because he's got that phone
in his hand you've got to get rid of
that so that you can use that hand as it
is designed remember the five D's plus
one the plus one is controlled the
distance you got to start your your
disarm attempt from the right distance
then you got to deflect he does that
well here then he has to dominate and if
you don't dominate then bad things
happen then you distract disarm and
disable now if you don't get to dominate
what we see is exactly what happens here
it's what Ed Parker used to say he never
send a weapon into orbit only to have it
come back around and reorbit to you and
that's exactly what he did notice that
the perp gets a say in the matter
because he didn't dominate The Gun he
just brings it right back around and if
that firearm is in functional condition
and the safety was off and those things
which is I think what his problem was is
that he didn't know how to operate the
safety then he would have been shot
right here our victim would have been
shot in absolutely innumerably
and therefore again you want to be able
to dominate and that's why practicing
those five D's plus one that's what we
see again and again in real life disarms
actually work and if you don't do them
you have big trouble exactly like we see
here thankfully at that moment okay I've
caused a malfunction or the gun wasn't
functioning to begin with and now our
dad has to do what the answer is break
contact and your job your mission as a
private citizen is to break contact with
a deadly threat you're not trying to
chase him down you're not trying to take
him into custody you're trying to break
contact with him doubly so if you have
people that depend on you for their
safety like a baby in your arms who you
need to get out of the danger zone so
the second you can break contact do
break contact and get yourself to safety
excellent job by dad on all of those
things now finally again this guy is
still fussing around with his gun and I
am grateful that plenty of perps don't
know how to use their firearm that said
this is a kind of a fortunate outcome
because our purpose such a [ __ ] I would
strongly recommend that you consider
that if anybody points a gun at you or
threatens you with a gun that it's real
that it's loaded and that they know how
to use it because if this perp did our
dad would probably have been shot so
let's follow these lessons to better
cover our ass