being a concealed carrier means not only
knowing how to shoot your firearm well
but when to draw in issue commands and
not shoot thank you for joining us on
today's active self protection lesson
I'm John Correa if you have a news story
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it's from Brazil but that's all I got on
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highly so this guy's chillin by his car
he's got you know water bottle up on the
top of it you can see a couple dudes
rolled by on a moto and that is
concerning when we're talking about
Brazil and if you're a watcher of the
channel you know that now we're gonna
actually see a second group of to ride
by on a moto and now he's really paying
attention man this is not okay now what
we don't get to see off camera is that
one of those two is stopping and turning
their motorcycle around so he kind of
gets off the phone and goes hair those
guys coming back around yeah they
decided to come back around and when
they do decide to come back around
you're gonna see this guy get his
firearm out and point it at them as they
start to stop and then go nope and then
keep on going from there see him wave in
and then wave often as they finally
drive off he is gonna put his firearm
away and go about his business and now
we're done really glad that guy was
paying attention to his surroundings so
that he didn't get victimized if you
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let's think about lessons today so let's
think about the transitional space that
is a parked car I want you to notice a
couple of things here number one it's
pretty late but after 10 o'clock if you
look in the upper right there is a you
know a time and date stamp there number
2 you are on a city street and you are
next to a parked vehicle which is a
valuable commodity so you're in a
transitional space you better be aware
of your world and this guy is now I'm
not all transitional spaces are instant
death traps but you do have to be aware
and pay attention in your world it's
doing a pretty decent job of that here
seeing what's going on see a couple guys
on a moto nope it's time for me to get
to
out of here we're gonna talk about that
in a second but I do want you to notice
what the mobile phone is doing to him
and how much time it's costing him and
how much you know attention it's costing
him to be on the phone even though it's
a phone call notice that that brings his
nose down and that brings his attention
down so one of the things that I really
do suggest if you do need to be talking
on the phone in these kinds of places if
you can keep your headset close keep
your earbuds nearby because the earbuds
don't tend to do that because your hand
is not next to your head doesn't pull
your head down and you can stay paying
better attention to your world with a
headset than you can with this this guy
does an okay job of paying attention and
seeing what's going on in his world
though and this is the biggest thing
that he did right he was paying
attention now certainly in a place like
Brazil you got to understand the
cultural implications of what's going on
and what looks like pre-attack
indicators again two dudes on the back
of a bike in Brazil utter and complete
this is an armed robbery that is staging
without question if this was in Asia
anywhere in Asia that wouldn't be the
case but Central and South America
absolutely the case very rare to see two
people on a motorcycle in the United
States not as common used as mode of
transportation in the United States so
know what your pre attack indicators are
because those are important now notice
that that sends our good guy into a bit
of condition Orange now we look at the
coloring Colonel Cooper's color codes
white is unaware we never want to live
there yellow is just aware of what's
going on in your world
orange is something's wrong and I need
to investigate it's not you know take
action to defend myself it's
investigating that's what he's doing
here he sees wait a minute couple guys
on a moto I don't like that I'm going to
investigate are they going off or are
they coming back around to me so that
investigation that color code orange is
a very important part of paying
attention to our world so he gets off
the phone quickly and then sees what
these guys are doing and as they make
that turn he decides okay I got to do
something here now notice that he is
cheating his draw and I think that's an
incredibly important part of attention
buying you time and time buying you
options you can become much faster on a
draw the first shot if you can cheat
your hand to the gun it will cut up to a
half a second at least three tenths of a
second off of your draw the first shot
sometimes even more in notice he's
paying attention the other thing he
needs to do is he needs to get rid of
the phone there's a little cut in the
video but notice that he's going to do
that and get rid of the phone
and so he can get two hands on the gun I
think that's excellent the next
excellent thing he did is you notice he
backed away from his cover the car is
acting as cover and he backs off it it's
not intuitive but you really want to
back away from your cover a couple steps
gives you better angles and actually
better protection in case you had a skip
of a bullet or something like that
so people tend to give cover a hug
reliably but the better way to do that
is to back off and back away from the
cover and he did a very good job of that
here and right now he's at low ready now
something I do want to consider here is
asking the question okay wait a minute
notice he's got the gun up and on these
guys and generally speaking that lets
you see less and is not as sound so this
is when a low ready position is really
important that you can see over the top
of the gun see what's going on with
those bad guys and then get the gun
up quickly and get a shot on target if
you need to now then I know some people
are going to say but how does he know
that there is a gun in their hand or
anything like that we can't see that
from here so I'm gonna give him the pass
on that and assume that he saw that
assume that he said wait a minute these
guys come came back around that's a huge
indicator in his town and one of them
probably was armed at that point so he
gets the gun on them in order to do that
now we here in the United States we talk
about the defensive display of a firearm
and you want to watch that and make sure
you've watched the active cell
protection extra lessons on the
defensive display of a firearm so you
know when you can defensively display a
firearm and not get hit with a
brandishing charge or an aggravated
assault charge finally this guy does
then get his stuff and get the heck out
of there so get out of the danger zone
as fast as you can don't lollygag in
these transitional spaces if you don't
have to love the fact that this guy had
his firearm on him so that he could
defend himself payed attention enough to
not have to actually shoot these guys
and that was a great way to cover your
ass