in a real-life defensive encounter you
will seldom stand still but you still
must make your shots welcome to today's
active self-protection lesson I'm your
host John Correa today's educational
lesson comes to us out of Ogden Utah in
the United States sped this original one
up just for the sake of time make sure
you go read the news story you'll see
this guy has been a kidnapping suspect
he's got all kinds of problems of cops
of finally saw him he's been shooting at
cars when the cops finally kind of get
him down here and keep him in a spot
it's multiple cops that are gonna
converge on him so that's what happens
there we see the suspect now in a
different camera oriented significantly
differently and as we see him here the
original is going to zoom in on him when
we see him walking away from the
officers but again this guy's been
shooting at cars he is a known
kidnapping suspect and so they finally
got this guy they're gonna take him into
custody now when the police officer
finally shows up here from the left what
we're gonna see is that he goes and
recognize this guy and this guy
immediately starts firing at the officer
who fires one shot on him it's the
officer from the other side that gets a
head shot ends the threat just that fast
pretty incredible marksmanship by those
officers if you want to get better with
your empty handed skills as well as your
marksmanship one of the best ways you
can do that is joining us at the asp
national conference at the end of
September in Manhattan Kansas at the
tallgrass shooting sports we're
supporting a great cause having a full
weekend of incredible training
conference style so you get to choose
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in the description it's gonna be a great
time I can't wait to see you there out
of today's video I do want to think
about the importance of movement why
marksmanship is the master and why
anatomically valuable targets are what
we have to aim for once again respect to
law enforcement officers because we
forced them into come into conflicts
like this we forced them to go into ten
these things as a private citizen we get
the heck away but they have to go into
them which is why I respect cops so much
and again it's a difficult job that they
do now coming to this guy knowing he's
armed knowing that he's dangerous
knowing that this guy's of felonies got
all kinds of problems so they know that
this one's gonna go south in a hurry now
that said I think the officer here comes
and he's just kind of hesitant on the
gun notice that he's got his hand on the
gun sure but he knows this guy is
dangerous and sometimes being cautious
is
to get you hurt recognizing that this
guy is a violent wanted felon inactive
kidnapping problems probably better to
be per to be prepared early and have the
gun in hand earlier rather than later at
this point because you're not going to
be able to out draw him deciding to get
after you and take shots at you he gets
the initiative in that case and
sometimes you gotta out initiative him
by having the gun out and in your hand
and ready to rock
now you notice he's coming and shooting
first and notice that fits of factors
that first officer there it gets him
down as well and finsih and Phibbs
effect good guys as much as they affect
bad guys and one of the reasons that I
say you want to be fast to that drawing
for shot if at all possible is because
if you can outdraw this guy if you can
get ahead of him in the grand scheme of
things then you can get him going with
Phipps instead of you going with Phipps
and if you can hit and make a hit in
this past time and be a quarter second
ahead of him now you get in with fibs
and not that other so what we see here
is that makes the officer turn real fast
and his shot back towards the guy is
over his left shoulder so that's pretty
much a panic firing friends and I get it
he wants to move but that shot had zero
chance of landing anywhere so if you've
got a move move if you decide I want to
get to cover then move but don't shoot
and move like that unless your firearm
skill are at an incredibly high level I
don't blame this officer I get it some
guys shooting at him this is dangerous
stuff he is in fear for his life I
totally get that but either you know
take a hard lateral step to get him to
think about you and put a shot on him or
not the other officer on the other hand
gets a good shot on him clearly that's
off to our left and to the bad guys
right and he puts that shot right where
it belongs now was he aiming for the
head or was that a fortuitous head shot
I don't know but when we talk about
anatomically meaningful hits the two
things that we want to say is really the
pumps and the pipes which is about a
five and a half six inch circle in the
middle which is the heart and the major
blood vessels of the heart or there's a
very small piece in the brain where your
major control stem is in the brain and
if you can hit that which is buried deep
in the brain then it shuts the guy off
exactly like this
so anatomical hits of significance are
the key and these are very small hits so
the officer who hit that whether it was
fortuitous or absolutely planned did the
exact right thing and put the threat
down quickly a guy who was active
we killing people and kidnapping and and
a violent felon in commission of violent
felonies and so good for him on that so
let's learn here about being ready in
advance about whether we want to take
that hard lateral step and move or
whether we want to actually move to
cover the incredible importance of
marksmanship and hitting those vital
targets to cover our ass
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