people get into their garage and think
that they are safe but until that door
is completely closed that's not true
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hi friends welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection i'm your
host john korea today's video comes to
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mountain man family pulling into their
driveway you can see the gate open up
there and they're pulling into their
garage and you can see i just barely see
their garage door going down when these
three dudes jump out of the car that's
down the street and they are gonna duck
under the garage door make it go back up
and as we go inside watch them get under
the garage door make the garage door go
back up at least one of them has a gun
here and now of course the family
finally gets to see that and these guys
are going to shake them down wallets
cell phones jewelry all that stuff i
don't have a great news story on this
one so if you do please put it in a
comment but you can see them grabbing
all their stuff and then running off
finally once they have everything that
they want from this family you see them
running off i don't have a follow-up if
they ever caught this guy but we
certainly are going to get to think
about some lessons out of this one we
just did a deep dive zoom seminar about
carjacking defense and this kind of
stuff came up in it if you want to take
the deep dive and really learn the
principles here in depth hit the link in
the description because the seminar is
there significant lesson i want to think
about out of this one is that you want
to pay attention to your surroundings
it's a little later at night uh and and
what i want you to pay attention to is
is this car normal on this road and this
this is in a you know a community where
everybody has a gate but remember those
gates are only good when they're closed
they're only going to keep people away
when they are closed when they are open
you've got a transitional space so you
got to pay attention and when you see a
vehicle that's out of place doesn't mean
you've got to get super paranoid or
whatever but i would definitely pay
attention this is a dominican republic
very hard to get a firearm and a firearm
license but i would recommend you carry
firearms if at all possible for exactly
this kind of thing and i'd also
recommend that you back into your
parking spot i think it is important in
this case to think about that particular
spot because had he backed into his
parking spot he might have been able to
see in this instance what was going on
see those guys coming put it in drive
and get the heck out of there as fast as
he possibly could now of course that
that means that if there was anybody in
the home if the the door from the garage
into the house is open and those people
are at risk so that could be a challenge
as well but i would definitely say
backing in is a better way in this kind
of environment if at all possible
because then you can see better if guys
are coming out of the car at you you
also want to get those gates closed as
fast as you can big problem here of
course is that these guys don't get to
see because they're in the garage and i
get it they don't get to see the fact
that these guys are coming at them and
of course we have two gates here you can
see the wrought iron gate that is still
open and then you also can see the fact
that they had the garage door going down
i just want you to recognize everybody
kind of gets you know their guard comes
down oh okay we're in the house we're in
the garage everything's okay but that's
only the case once the gate is closed
once the garage door is down once the
you that you're not in a transitional
space anymore until then you have to
continue to pay attention i would
strongly encourage you keep your doors
locked if at all possible and i get it
you might go man i live in a good
neighborhood blah blah but these people
do live in a good neighborhood as well
or you know probably thought they did
and that didn't help them out at all now
once these guys have breached your doors
with a firearm out this is a very
difficult problem and this is probably
the only time that a private citizen
might have something like fighting in a
vehicle to do you know this isn't like a
drug buy or anything like that that's
fighting guys who are trying to take
your stuff who are in a position of
advantage in this case
be very difficult to draw a firearm in
this particular case very difficult to
fight these guys off especially because
one of them had a firearm so generally
would not recommend that unless you've
had some significant training in that
and your skill set is very high
prevention is definitely the better case
here so make sure you're paying
attention to your surroundings backing
in your vehicles closing your gates
before you get out of the vehicle if at
all possible it's probably the best way
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