if you're going to carry a firearm you
need to be good enough with it that you
are not a danger to bystanders
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action in today's video I am Stephanie
Weidner and this is John Korea today's
video comes to us from Oakland
California palm pepper spray has
recently reformulated for even more
effect when you bless the deserving with
the hot sauce Palm is what I use between
a harsh word and a gun and encourage
everyone to do likewise right so
according to the news story we have a
group of Employees leaving this cannabis
store and this looks to be the security
guard that's unlocking the door and
walking out scanning the parking lot he
sees something that he doesn't like
reaches for the gun on the small of the
back here and gets ready to have a
gunfight with the person that was
waiting in the parking lot yeah and he
does now what happened there is that
female employee who is leaving actually
ended up paying for this with her life
the other employee the one with the gun
I think was also injured in this with
non-life-threatening injuries the perps
got away don't have any information on
the cops catching them we're going to
think about some lessons today big
difficult outcome there Hey listen if
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I think one of the most important
lessons that we have to think about here
is
store they're used to doing this you
know hundreds of times walking out to
their to their cars and stuff at the end
of the day the guard is paying attention
but you can see that there's a lot of
people are the two gals at the end are
on the phone maybe not as turned on as
they should be I think you have to be
aware that because of the current state
of things that Cannabis stores are
really a high risk place for you to be
yeah these places literally deal with
tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars
in cash because they're not allowed to
take credit cards because marijuana is
on schedule one substance list and those
things so with that in mind you have a
high value product you have a ton of
cash around that makes you a significant
Target now that said okay we've got a
guard here in California with a firearm
on their person in their place of
business I'm all behind that I think
that's a great thing and I think that
that was a good idea he's also paying
attention to his world so he opens the
door and you see him the armed person is
the right one to go out first to see
what's going on and we talk about that
as self-defenders all the time that
you're responsible for protecting the
crew right and I think we have to point
out that the rest of the employees here
a couple of them are on their phones
again this is something they've done
hundreds of times so they've become
complacent probably at the end of the
shift and they're checking in with their
social medias now would I certainly
rather everyone be protected and armed
here and ready and paying attention
absolutely I would no question about it
but even having one armed person can
make a very significant difference so up
to this point I love everything that I
see here in terms of their preparedness
now when he gets going for the gun
notice a couple things here number one
he's carrying small the back I never
recommend carrying small to back number
one very difficult to draw efficiently
from without flagging yourself for sure
number two can really hurt you if you
fall on that can cause some significant
injuries I love that he's got a gun on
him but generally speaking waste carry
is strong side or appendix as the best
choices absolutely especially I mean
he's a young guy so he probably doesn't
struggle with as much limited Mobility
he is able to get the gun in the fight
but play it slow if he'd been able to
get a second faster here could have made
a significant difference in a lot of
ways as we'll see yeah and as we slow it
down as he draws here one of his other
problems makes it even slower to get the
gun in the fight is as he gets his gun
up you're going to see right here that
he has to take the time to chamber
around we always recommend that you keep
your firearm ready to go right now
because if he had that he might have
been able to make better choices from a
tactical perspective but instead he has
to spend that extra time that extra
attention getting the gun loaded and in
the fight and it makes him really slow
and a lot of people that carry with that
chamber empty do so from what they
believe is a safety perspective putting
themselves at less risk because they
don't have a firearm that can go off so
easily however as we see this put him
and the rest of the crew at Great risk
because it took him so long to get that
gun in the fight absolutely now you
notice here as well that because he's
got all his tension there then he gets
the gun up and in his line of sight and
what does he see he sees a fellow worker
here is what he sees in his line of
sight one of the reasons to be very
careful if you don't have an actual
imminent deadly threat that you have
eyes on you generally don't want to
bring that gun up to eye level yeah I
think he was so busy getting that gun
ready that he wasn't able to continually
process this scene and you can see this
is the first point the gun is ready and
I'm sure this is where he is looking to
figure it out and this is where his
co-workers running it up now our dude
runs in and I gotta tell you you can see
right here both the the cloud from the
what what looks like really dirty ammo
that our good guys shooting as well as
the fire from our attackers muzzle this
is how fast these things go down and
these these hundreds of seconds
sometimes matter in a gunfight the big
difference here accuracy because neither
of them hit or I think actually the bad
guy probably hit at least one of them in
this case and our good guy did not that
we know about this threat continues
you've got to make hits yeah I think
that's so important if you've been a
little bit better prepared he may have
been able to end this right here this
bad guy was obviously driven off by the
gun fire accurate gunfire may have done
so much more quickly may have gotten him
on the ground rather than continuing to
fire because what I think happens here
is I think that shot right there that
just went off is most likely the one
that got this female employee she's kind
of standing there I think he's obviously
not you know thinking about safety for
the employees when he's doing that and I
think one of those two shots is the ones
that got her would be my guess I don't
have ballistic information from the
corner or anything but that's my best
guess based on what's Happening so again
if he was good enough that the employee
was good enough to put this guy down
with the first or second shot this might
not happen and unfortunately from her
point of view as a self-defender there's
just nothing she can do here she's in a
situation with no tools and no exit and
she's at the mercy of the bad guy here
yeah and of course we see here our
attacker just firing blindly using the
gun as a warning tool and just firing
behind him as he Retreats and we can't
expect armed attackers to follow the
rules of safe fire and family because
they're not gonna no absolutely and they
may not even intend to shoot you that
doesn't mean you're going to get shot I
mean does it mean that you're not going
to have that it's true now last thing
here you can see our last Muzzle you
know kind of flash here from our
Defender and recognize remember we say
grip is the master but also sights set
to Pace you only fire when you see in
your sights an imminent deadly threat
that needs to be shot rather than
shooting through the door right if he
was tracking that bad guy that last shot
put his co-worker here at very high risk
if it didn't hit her it was certainly a
risky shot the d didn't prove he had the
Marksmanship to handle this problem
that's very true so listen a couple last
things here number one nobody helps this
lady she is badly injured and she needs
some first aid skills and first aid help
right now and and of course you know I
wish somebody in the shop had that with
her but she's her own first responder
absolutely and women have such an easy
time of this we're able to carry purses
and bags which is enough to carry a
small trauma kit with you the things
that if your life is at risk and you
have you know 90 seconds to really make
a difference they can be in your purse
and that and that's enough time to do
something so I think it's important to
recognize that nobody may do it for you
you need to be able to do it for
yourself but there are good follow-up
actions that are self-defender could
have taken as well absolutely finally
thing of course this woman paid with her
life and you've got to have spiritual
Fitness every day of your life which
means that you've you've said everything
you need to say to your loved ones they
know you love them that you've solved
every conflict that you can and that you
and Jesus have a strong relationship
because you're going to need it on that
day and may not have time to get it so
make sure that you practice that today
and every day as you practice emotional
Fitness practice all of the fitnesses
let's learn the lessons here about
making sure that we're carrying
appropriately make sure that we have the
Marksmanship skills to be first and
accurate because we'll need it on that
day and we need it not only to protect
ourselves but everyone else Stephanie
thank you so much thank you