getting your gun out in a fight is great
but you gotta know when it's time to use
it and not protect it
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bottom of the screen is our Defender
you're gonna see a perp come in with a
big old machete in through the doors our
purpose is going to respond he has a
firearm on him let's listen into the
audio on this one
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honestly I couldn't find anything on
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in the description hey if you go over to
active Self Protection extra we have
some stuff about shooting that firearm
from a retention or close hold position
and I think that's an important lesson
here some stuff about grappling disarms
as well over on active Self Protection
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in the description I do think it's a
first point I love that our Defender was
carrying his firearm good for him right
you carry it because you don't know when
you're gonna need it so you want to have
it on you all the time he sees the
threat as well so he sees this guy
coming at him with a machete and gets
his gun out okay fine but recognize that
getting your gun out and in the fight
only gives you really an advantage if
the guy maintains at distance right now
our Defender is at all the advantage
because he is just out of range of that
machete and he's in range with his
Firearms so letting that guy close on
you is going to create significant
problems so this is when you want to say
get away from me man back up and if he
continues on you now you know the deadly
threat that you face so good on him for
getting his gun out and in the fight but
watch how fast this guy is then going to
close the distance here and then start
pawing at his gun so listen you've got
to be able to defend your firearm and
this is when your understanding of the
leveraging arm comes in we talk about
the leveraging arm all the time as a
Defender against the leveraging arm but
you have to understand the leveraging
arm from the perspective of The Defender
as well and getting that hand out in
front of you and pushing him off you to
get you the space to keep him away from
your gun is a very good thing you notice
he's got the gun down at his side right
here which is okay fine but it's not
going to live you forever because the
guy's just going to reach right in and
then try to grab a hold of it and
actually get a hold of it for a second
now our Defender picks it back up again
and now the fight is on
dude has a machete out and is attacking
with that machete I don't understand why
he doesn't shoot him here and doesn't
shoot him multiple times I don't know if
that's because maybe he doesn't have a
round in the chamber or just mentally he
hasn't thought through this but you got
to understand when it's time to use the
gun you want to use it as tuko the
prophet said when it's time to shoot
shoot don't talk and and in this case
he's clearly a threat of death or great
bodily harm he's come at him with a
machete he's tried to take his firearm
away this is a classic case of defensive
use you know Justified use of deadly
force should absolutely have used it
here instead now they're fighting over
the guy's gun now listen this weapon
retention about as hard a problem as
exists you're going to see the guy kind
of dragging him and trying to get away
from him now listen your only Advantage
here is you are holding on to the holy
Ani part of the gun and he is holding on
to the shooty part of the gun but you
got to use leverage here to get him off
your gun and leaving the gun in between
you bad idea generally speaking on the
mats what we find is the person with the
shorter arms is winning the person who
is you know has the gun closer to their
body is winning and so those are the two
rules that you want to work through in
these kind of situations and work them
through on the mat before you got to
work them through in real life for the
first time again shorter arms generally
wins and closer to their body is
generally winning what's going on and
then leveraging that gun out of his hand
you can see that it dropped the magazine
out so now I think he's still got the
gun in his hands at this point but it's
a One-Shot gun and you can see right
here they're still wrestling over that
gun
and now they are in a you know a
grappling environment so even as a
Firearms carrier this is why I say at
least six months of grappling at least
you know a couple of white stripes on
your white belt and Jiu Jitsu something
like that catch wrestling [ __ ] some
kind of a grappling art wrestling
something that will help you to gain
position here and to gain a position of
dominance and not let this guy get the
gun back around to you it's a One-Shot
gun but that one shot can kill you dead
So eventually hear what he's gonna do is
you're going to see our Defender kind of
finally get the gun out of play here and
kind of I think it's going to get kicked
over to the side and push the way it's
gonna it's out of sight for it to do
that and then he's kind of got him on
the ground okay this is where I really
do think that that having those
defensive ground skills is important
again I don't think you need a brown
belt in Jiu Jitsu in order to do this I
think if you want a brown belt in Jiu
Jitsu that's fantastic but some basic
understanding of of getting on top
staying on top controlling somebody from
the bottom getting yourself to a good
position and being able to disengage
that's that's a real superpower in these
kinds of defensive encounters and doing
so under pressure with an unwilling
opponent somebody who means you you know
to to lose and has freedom of motion I
think is very important because he's in
a dominant position here but eventually
the guy is going to get up and get to a
better position and so now what are you
going to do he does get him back down to
the ground okay fine and the guy finally
gives up and I just want to say at the
very end here as the guy gives up
finally somebody else comes back but
recognize no one's coming to save you
your defense is up to you everyone else
fled now he gets his gun back and gets
it back loaded and all that stuff but I
just want to say that I'm proud of him
for not shooting the guy in this case
he's got the machete away from him he's
got the gun he's in control of it he's
got multiple people there and so he
doesn't cross the line from Defender to
offender he doesn't cross the line into
retribution or punishment from
protection and I think that's super
admirable and good for him for that what
a great lesson here and the distances
involved in firearms and the importance
of empty-handed skills regularly
grappling skills for firearms carriers
make sure you have them so you can cover
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