when you have a distance tool like a
firearm you've got to learn to keep your
distance to use it effectively welcome
to today's active self-protection lesson
I'm your host John Correa
today's video is a scary one and it
comes to us out of Brazil guy in the red
shirt is just finishing a purchase and
you guys see this guy run in with his
hand his left hand there on a gun and
announce a robbery and our guy in red is
just gonna walk away from them but his
partner shows up with a gun and dude now
grabs ahold of the gun and it's a fight
for his gun but guy in red has a firearm
as well and he is gonna walk up on this
dude find a good angle put his foot on
him and fill that guy full of lead just
absolutely filled him in and there and
they're gonna walk off and see who else
is out there if we go back to the
original angle here guys just gonna walk
off put his hands out hey man I got no
problems when his partner gets in a hand
fight with the guy which is pretty
unbelievable we'll talk about it in a
minute he's gonna get his gun out and
watch him fill this guy in absolutely
puts one on him drops him like a rock
and that dude takes the tile floor
temperature challenge now you notice
that they're just kind of kind of kind
of leave him there and make their
follow-up actions and that's where this
one ends boy I'm awful glad that they
were able to work together to end that
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of today's video I want to think about
keeping distance with distance tools I
also want to think about waiting your
turn and knowing when is the time to
draw your firearm and using it in an
enclosed space with friendlies nearby
start by talking about the transitional
space here we see our bad guys show up
in a hurry sometimes there's not a whole
lot that you're gonna do he announces
the robbery and and again when you're in
these kind of convenience stores we call
them stop and Rob's for a reason and and
you've got to recognize that there is
our valuables here there's a till full
of money and these guys can get in
quickly get out quickly and that's what
makes it a transitional space when
you're in one you got to recognize that
you are at additional risk and so you
have to pay very close attention to
what's going on in your world now
another key point here is our good guy
just waits his turn now
we know he has a gun on him bad guy
doesn't know he has a gun on him and so
our good guy in the red shirt puts his
hands up okay man in an armed robbery
one of the absolute keys is you have to
wait your turn if he tries to draw a gun
right here he's gonna get gunned down so
you gotta wait until the bad guy's
attention is not on you and the gun is
not pointed at you to launch your
counter ambush one of the keys to
survival say it with me again wait your
turn and our guy in the red shirt did a
really good job of that here now his
partners in the back and he has the
opportunity to launch a counter ambush
here and he comes around with a gun in
his hand now listen a counter ambush
here is great but notice that our bad
guy at this point is starting to draw
that gun out of his waistband because he
sees that he has a threat
you got a distance tool on you and you
can launch a counter ambush so one of
the reasons I say marksmanship is so
important because if my marksmanship
skills are very high I don't have to
close this much distance in order to
really guarantee that I can get a hit
which is why I tell you to go trained
don't just go to the range and turn
money into smoke and noise but actually
get under instructions so you get better
at this and you're highly competent in
shooting now he closes the distance and
unfortunately when you close the
distance within arm's reach it's not my
gun it's our gun and he when he does
that the bad guy grabs ahold of it and
now he's got a fight for his gun if you
have a distance tool like a firearm
maintain your distance don't voluntarily
close the distance when you have a
firearm it has a functionally infinite
length of availability in a defensive
encounter it has infinite range so use
that infinite range and stay far enough
away from the guy that he can't put his
hands on your gun because this is what
goes down and the guy has to go down on
the ground now he's fighting from bottom
position to retain his gun and that's
life-or-death friends now guy in red
shirts got his gun out but he's gonna
have to grab ahold and find a good angle
it's hard for us to see here we'll see
it a little better in the other angle
but he's got to get over the top of this
guy so that he doesn't shoot his partner
that's very wise you got to keep your
firearm pointed in a safe direction that
said I don't think sticking his foot on
this guy was the right idea number one
that puts his foot in his space where if
he's dumb he could shoot himself in the
foot number two it gives his base
instability because the bad guy is his
base right now and that's not optimum
keep your feet on the ground if you can
friends but he's able to fill this guy
in put bit good shots on him and now
let's think about following up we're
gonna talk
about that again in just a sec but make
sure that bad guy is completely out of
the fight couple other things won't pay
attention to here as things start going
south and the guys show up we see how
closely he gets to him here and we see
that when he closes it within arm's
length that guy's gonna grab ahold of
that I see it on camera all the time
friends keep a distance but notice the
clerk here on the Left Clerk sees what's
going on she gets down and gets away I
think that's incredibly wise here and
again I you know Brazil can be a very
tough place and so I think these folks
who get more opportunity to do this than
folks in some other places but very very
wise here when danger shows up to get
down and get away from it to get out of
the danger zone if at all possible you
don't have to stand there and have the
fight certainly don't have to stand
there and watch the fight instead get
yourself to a better location get down
get away from the danger learn that get
out of the danger zone now then as
everything goes down and our good guys
gonna show up here in the red now notice
that our guy here who is in the black
who has gotten in there is now having a
fight from bottom position yes having
empty-handed skills incredibly important
I do think once your marksmanship skills
are very strong as a self defender you
should work on some entangled gun
fighting you should work on this gun
fighting in the 0 to 1 to 2 feet range
and and fighting to retain your tool
because things like this do happen you
do make bad decisions and oh no now
we're in this fight now what do I do so
knowing how to retain your tool knowing
how to use your body to gain positional
dominance I think is an important skill
once your marksmanship strong now fills
this dude in multiple times great job
they're putting it on him that said
think about the follow up here these
guys are now running off and yes that
guy is is down but look at the fact that
he is still moving so however they shot
him he is not completely out of the
fight so make sure that you get his tool
away from him as well that you don't
leave him to pop back up and to continue
to be a threat to you and yours all
things considered I think the guy in the
red shirt did a great job of waiting his
turn his marksmanship was good he did it
good enough there his other partner
let's not get that close let's make sure
we do the right things with our tactics
to cover our ass
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