carry your tools on you all the time
because sometimes little arguments can
escalate and blow up thank you for
joining us on today's active self
protection lesson I'm your host John
Correa today's video comes to us from
Philadelphia Pennsylvania in the US if
your homeowners insurance is like mine
it does not cover your firearms or other
collectibles for that I use collectibles
insurance services and recommend them
highly so these guys have just had a
minor fender bender you can see them
there in the right third of the screen
and the guy who is in the black t-shirt
is from the car in front as a passenger
you can't see because he's on the
passenger side and they're arguing hey
man give me your you know your insurance
and stuff let's exchange information
we'll go about it the guy says I don't
have any insurance or any of those
things now the guy's driving a BMW so I
kind of doubt that he doesn't have
insurance but now they're having an
argument about it and he's like look man
we gotta you know do this stuff and you
can see that they're getting more
animated in their discussion and once
that animations gonna get going tells
his passenger to call you know police so
that they can have a police report guy
hunches him in the face and then his
friend who was in the car with him comes
up punches him from behind the head with
a set of brass knuckles like they cuz it
busted his head wide open so that makes
our guy pull a gun and and hold this
other guy's guys like whoa he's got a
gun so he gets down on the ground the
other guy comes back starts hollering
I've talked to this victim and when he
comes up on him the guy actually pulls
his gun up and shoots him four times now
the guy did make it through that he did
run off thankfully and he ended up in
the hospital pretty severely wounded but
did live through it and we're gonna see
our dude here hold this guy for a while
now our guy with the gun was actually
initially charged with an aggravated
assault and menacing with a weapon and
several other charges but those ended up
getting dropped charges against the
other guy got dropped too and that is
where this one ends pretty crazy stuff
and when we have videos that show up in
people's hometown oftentimes they go hey
that's my town but I just want to hear
from you where are you watching from
what town are you in right now I record
these out of Phoenix Arizona that's
where I'm based out of so let's shout
out today where are you from lesson
number one in this video is all about
verbal judo friends I mean worst case
scenario if the guy won't you know
exchange information or whatever get a
picture of his license plate get on the
phone with your insurance agent get on
phone police and say hey I got this guy
won't exchange information with me I've
got his license
whatever I'm gonna get in my car lock my
doors whatever and but learn the verbal
judo skills friends really seriously
by-the-book verbal judo by the book how
to win friends and influence people and
learn how to try to de-escalate conflict
I really mean this I think a lot of
people to carry a gun they don't mind
having conflicts and and they only give
lip service to de-escalation now then
when it escalates to this point though
this guy throws a punch and punches him
in the face now we're not talking about
de-escalation anymore now we're talking
about empty-handed skills and a physical
fight now I will say somebody punching
you in the face is a physical assault
and unless you are a particularly frail
person which this is an able-bodied man
you probably don't have grounds here in
order to use deadly force this is
ordinary force and an ordinary assault
so you have grounds there instead to use
ordinary force to resist that and to
stop it but not deadly force now what
we're gonna see here is our dudes start
going for his gun already now I'm gonna
say here you better be very careful you
better understand the laws of your
jurisdiction now had he known there was
a guy coming up behind him he wouldn't
let him punch him in the head so I don't
think he knows that guy's there so a guy
punches you in the face and if you draw
your firearm you better understand the
laws of your jurisdiction where I live
in Arizona we have a very strong
defensive display of a firearm statute
and somebody at ordinary physical force
you can display a firearm in a defensive
in a protective manner and it's okay but
in most places aren't like that so check
your local laws that could be
problematic now of course this other guy
punches him in the back of the head and
that's absolutely a total sucker punch
and it just absolutely gave this guy a
huge open wound on his back in the back
of his head which is why I think the guy
had something in his hand in order to do
that now that changes things entirely
number one we have multiple attackers
able-bodied Jews when you have multiple
attackers that greatly increases the
odds of you you know taking great bodily
harm or being in fear of death that
makes a firearm much more reasonable to
use in these particular instances also
multiple attackers very difficult to
deal with so our dude gets down now he's
gonna get up and come around because he
sees this guy going back towards his
friend on the passenger side of the car
where he's at but I do want you to
notice his backstop here look who's but
you know behind our bad guy is a whole
bunch of bystanders now in a real
defensive shooting context you're not
going to usually get very clean
backstops there's gonna be moving people
there's cars
there's all kinds of other people just
make sure that you recognize you make
some practice of paying attention to
your world and seeing where you'd have
to move in order to not endanger anyone
else with your firearm of course the key
they're being good marksmanship and
always keeping it pointed at the bad guy
now dude gives up okay man I don't want
any problems I get it at this point
bleeding out the back of his head I
don't want a problem now a couple things
here number 26 is foot on the back of
this guy who has given up I think that's
a terrible idea that's Hollywood central
don't ever do that instead you have a
firearm in your hand back up a little
bit give this guy some space get away
from him so then that way you can you
know keep the space that you have and
stay safe otherwise the guy could roll
over and hurt you now it's think about
the the moving in guy the guy that's
aggressing and recognize that he's
yelling and hollering again I heard from
the defender in this particular one he's
like eff this guy he's not a cop get up
we'll beat the crap out of him whatever
and the guys already punched him with
something very hard in the back of his
head so he starts issuing commands now
again that guy comes up here and he gets
a gun on him he says get away from me
get away from me and now raises a gun at
him at what point is it reasonable for
him to use that firearm even if you can
defensively display can you use it I
think the fact here that we have
multiple attackers one of whom is still
unknown he's not in custody yet and is
starting to get up and this guy is
moving forward and coming towards you
when you have a gun pointed at him and
have told him to get away that starts to
get very reasonable grounds to use
deadly force because again can a
reasonable person assume everything else
that's gone on I'm pointing a gun at
this guy if he gets on me he's gonna
take that gun away from me and use it on
me and he's shown a wanton disregard for
safety and for reasonableness by
aggressing on a drawn gun I think the
answer to that is yes but always check
your local laws in your jurisdiction
okay so he does get marksmanship on this
guy shoots him there I want to see look
at what happens it takes a less than 3/4
of a second for the guy to turn
completely around so he did get this guy
in the wrist in the arm in the shoulder
and in his
and okay fine those were all just fine
but the last one was in his side and so
somebody might ask well was it justified
to shoot him in the side in
three-quarters of a second the guy went
from full face forward to to facing
completely the other way and that's how
fast these things go down so you're
gonna make these split-second decisions
and by the time you start stop shooting
you might get him in the side or even in
the back it's not about where you shoot
someone it's about why you shoot him now
then we're gonna see him get with his
buddy here and again get on the phone
with 911 I can't tell you enough that
guy's splayed out great just back up and
hold him that's what low ready is for
not getting up in this guy's business
where he can maybe pop back up again and
give you a problem with a gun in your
hand but keeping him there until the
cops arrive now last thing I want to say
is what you saw in this one is that our
defender though I think that he was
justified and I'm glad that they'd ended
up dropping charges ended up getting
charged with a whole bunch of stuff and
you know sometimes these are politically
driven decisions that the district
attorney is just gonna decide to charge
you because he wants to send a statement
to others so this is why I do recommend
that you have something like a legal
defense program something like firearms
legal protection where you have the
ability to say hey wait a minute the
legal costs on this are covered for me
so that I don't bankrupt myself having
to fight off these guys thankfully that
day ended up with no civil suits they
ended up with no criminal charges he did
have to convince the DA to drop those
charges and that took some time but
thankfully that was the case so let's
make sure that a we do carry our gun B
that we know when we can draw our
firearms see we use our verbal judo we
also understand when we can use deadly
force and when it is objectively
reasonable to do so we do so well and
cover our ass