in many defensive encounters the mere
presence of a firearm is enough to win
the day welcome to today's active
self-protection lesson I'm your host
John Korea active self-protection exists
to help good people like you better
protect yourself and your loved ones
today's video comes to us from Pasadena
California in the United States and it
shows us an attempted robbery that
doesn't go well for the robbers thanks
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on the ankle first-aid kit that I wear
every day so sped up the beginning of
this one you see these two guys come in
and they're looking over all the jewelry
whatever want you to notice that the the
older guy is walking around the store
with them the younger guys stand in that
right corner that's going to be
important and if you go watch the
original this goes on for about five
minutes I've compressed it highly just
for the sake of time but they're gonna
look around kind of look at things talk
to the guys whatever what you're going
to see now is the guy in the red ball
cap is actually going to pull a knife
and when he does that
the older owner goes for it a little bit
younger guy draws a gun and when he does
draw a gun it runs them off and the news
story that I have linked in the
description says that the father was
hurt a little bit with that knife no
shots were fired it did drive them off
now they go out to see what's going on
here and our good guys gonna come back
and forth in a couple times but they're
gone and that is where this one ends
scary stuff but thankfully the store
owner is going to make a full recovery
question for you out of this one does it
surprise you that in California a store
owner would be carrying a firearm let me
know what you think you know the reality
is California's gun laws are pretty
egregious ly bad but actually their
self-defense laws are pretty good
particularly in your place of business
or in your home so it doesn't really
surprise me a whole lot from that
endeavor
I want to think about some critical
lessons here including keeping your
firearm on your person I want to think
about the five DS plus one in the life
of the owner and I want to think about
the value the critical nature of having
first aid equipment and skills so let's
think about running a retail store here
and recognizing that people are going to
come in all kinds of different people
and you are gonna make judgment calls on
are these guys okay are they real
customers or are they gonna give me a
hard time or whatever I love the fact
that this has you know this is this
father-and-son team not a
husband-and-wife team but a
father-and-son team are working in
tandem but a couple of interesting
things here i won
to pay attention to the fact that number
one that dad is sitting in a corner here
you notice that he is sitting in a place
where you know his back is in a corner
and there's really nowhere for him to go
without raising that little you know bar
there the son you notice is sitting
behind this counter in the spot because
that's where his gun is he has got a
firearm that is stationed behind the
counter there and he's futzing with it
and getting everything set so that he
can get to it if he needs to clearly
after them looking around and whatever
words they're there exchanging he feels
like these guys may not be customers but
maybe robbers and so he's getting ready
I don't really like a gun station under
the counter because it sticks the son in
that spot and he can't get anywhere else
but you notice here he's grabbing for
that gun do you notice that he's got his
hand under the counter here and as our
guy in the red cap is going to put his
hand in his pocket we recognize that
that the son is getting the gun in his
hand he's not overtly threatening with
it but he's preparing and he's doing a
good job here of paying attention
because recognize that the eyes are the
windows to the soul the hands are the
windows to the intent so we look I hands
waist eyes hands waist and we look in
pockets because we want to see what's
going on and that attention buys you
time time buys you options but again
notice the dad is stuck in a corner now
we got to start talking about the empty
handed skillset here notice that as soon
as the knife comes out now our dad has
to deal with that knife in a spot where
oh no what am I going to do
also notice that because the gun is
stationed at the counter the son is
stuck at an angle he doesn't really want
to be if that gun was on his person
rather instead of being behind the
counter the son could have been at any
angle he wanted so that dad was not in
his foreground that would have been a
better idea now dad goes to get that
knife-wielding attacker and I want you
to notice the fact that he has to
practice the five DS plus one control
the distance and then deflect dominate
distract disarmed disable but he has to
deal with the leveraging arm here he's
trying to dive all the way over and deal
with this hand that's the far hand away
from him and that's very very difficult
to do especially against a resisting
opponent somebody who wants to keep that
knife free from you yes you want to be
able to use either a bicep tie or a risk
type but you do have to deal with the
leveraging arm and we've covered that on
active self-protection extra before go
find that video if you want to look at
that now notice here I want you to see
that on the right on the left hand side
our dad is doing a pretty decent job of
kind of a right in between a bicep tie
and a wrist
that's very difficult to do when you
look on the right side over here and you
notice that our bad guy has a hold of
him with the leveraging arm and is
pushing him away you have to be able to
deal with the leveraging arm against an
armed attacker in any case whether it's
a knife or a gun but particularly with a
knife because if he can get that knife
away from you he can work you over with
it and that's exactly what happens a
little bit here for our dad is that he's
not able to get it completely away now a
couple things I want to notice of the
son he gets the gun out and starts
pointing it but notice that he still has
the phone in his hand at this point so
he's waving a gun around one-handed you
will always be a better marksman with
two hands on the gun than one so learn
how to drop what's in your hand to get
both hands on the gun because more hands
on the gun will give you better control
better marksmanship and that's
critically important particularly here
where you've got dad in close proximity
you got to make every shot count and you
have to point the firearm in a safe
direction because he's only got one hand
on the gun it's gonna be harder for him
to do that so I want to also notice here
that as the situation changes notice
that he's got to keep this firearm
pointed in a safe direction and just the
pointing of the firearm did a huge
difference here that he didn't actually
shoot these guys no rounds were fired
and yet this is a very successful
defensive gun use let's recognize it for
what it is it is a successful defensive
gun use because the guys were driven off
yay the attack was stopped that's the
correct thing now could he have shot
these guys course he could have however
could he have done it safely very
difficult shot here with a loved one in
close proximity and I want you to notice
right here well he's finally put the
thing down and his hand put two hands on
the gun that's good but where's that gun
pointed directly at the back of his dad
you've got a point firearms in a safe
direction at all times and muzzling your
loved ones especially doing so in a live
environment with your finger on the
trigger where bad guys are in the
vicinity is a great way to have a
fratricide a great way for somebody you
love to get shot friends you've got to
keep them in mind the rules of firearms
safety always keep your firearms pointed
in a safe direction and your dad is not
a safe Direction thankfully he does move
out of the way so that he doesn't do
that with his dad now then these guys
are going to run after them and I say
this all the time thankfully nothing bad
happened here but don't chase fleeing
felons you don't have anything good
that's coming out there nothing good is
going to happen they could have a buddy
out there they could be piling in a car
they could go get a gun and come back
because they want to have the fight with
you or whatever all kinds of bad things
happen
out there instead solidify your
defensive position consolidate the win
in the space that you have get on the
phone with the authorities and get them
on the way so these folks were prepared
they had a firearm in the store that's a
good thing I'd prefer it on body to
being stationed behind the counter but
paying attention matters for a lot
knowing those five DS plus one being
able to fight off a knife-wielding
attacker incredibly important practicing
the rules of firearm safety critical
also knowing that sometimes pointing a
gun is the right answer did enough here
to fend off the threat and these guys at
the end of the day covered their ASP
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