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John with today's act of self-protection
lesson out of Cullen Louisiana was
actually posted to Facebook by the best
friend of the woman who is the clerk
here I can't even find a news story on
it so if you do have one put it in a
comment I'll add it to the description
well we're gonna see here is a couple of
armed robbers coming to this lady store
and everything goes pretty far south in
a hurry look on the left and you see two
armed robbers come into this convenience
store it's split screen here and the
employee to the rise just not having him
he points a gun at her and she's just
like what are you doing let me see your
face and of course he cannot
swats away her hand tells her that he
wants the money out of the till so she
goes to the back and as she pushes the
other robber out of the way the first
one shoots her and now we're gonna see
from a different angles she goes to the
back and gets a gun from behind the
counter pops one off down towards them
through the doorway there and then you
can see she's limping because he's
actually shot her and all the
information I have is in the original
linked in the description but they both
got away and she is shot and hurt and
that is where this one ends you know
real life criminal violence just does
not go like we see it happen in
Hollywood I have a poll question for you
out of this one and it's a fairly simple
one would you call this a positive
outcome was this a win or not a win
hit the poll and let me know what you
think me personally I don't think I'd
call this a win I mean this clerk ended
up shot in the leg and okay the bad guys
didn't get away with any money but I
wouldn't let somebody shoot me in the
leg for a bunch of money so I don't
think this is a win out of today's video
I want to think about some significant
lessons number one about having ego
battles with armed robbers number two
about the folly of keeping a firearm
behind the counter and number three why
I say again and again
either resist fully or comply fully
against a deadly threat let's think
about this one from position first of
all transitional spaces these guys come
in and you see them looking for somebody
to accost and you notice that this clerk
can't really see outside the store these
transitional spaces get made worse
convenience stores are definitely one of
them
when you can't see outside because that
entrance from outside to inside is a
place where they can launch an attack
with an element of surprise and when you
are in one of these transitional spaces
if you are a gas through your checking
out at a convenience store you're going
under grab a monster or something like
that recognize it's a more likely place
of attack now these guys are gonna come
in and notice that he gets a gun right
up on her and listen friends this is why
I say in an armed robbery you always
gotta wait your turn even if she had a
firearm on her person you know she's a
meat-eating crime-fighting self defender
or whatever you are not going to be able
to out draw a gun pulling it at you
that's why we always say don't draw from
the drop you would had to have waited
your turn here and and this is one of
the principles of surviving an armed
robbery that you have to wait your turn
guy gets the initiative you're always
operating at an initiative deficit but
the way to wait your turn is not to
provide an ego challenge to an armed
robber you notice look at her body
posture look at what she's saying and
look at that she tries to grab the guy's
mask and pull it off these are all ego
challenges these are all challenges to
his manhood into him being in charge and
she's got her hands on her hips like hey
man I'm in charge of this and notice
she's smiling at him man what's your
problem you're not gonna really shoot me
are you and those kind of things are
ways that you're challenging the ego of
the armed robber it's also a halfway
measure
don't give halfway measures either's
comply fully put the hands up hey man
I'll give you what you want or resist
fully get that gun out of his hand and
go to work on him because what happens
here is she's kind of playing
half-hearted games in attempts on this
guy and instead she's pissing him off
and that's gonna be a big problem
because we're gonna see here is he
shoots her and he shoots her in the leg
but why did he shoot her she wasn't a
threat to him she wasn't you know making
any kind of things now I don't know if
she said something verbally I'm gonna go
get my gun and shoot you or whatever
even worse in that instance but
compliance or even half-hearted
compliance is not a guarantee of your
safety listen he might just shoot you
out of spite
or because you said something that he
didn't like and that's what happens here
that's why I say either comply fully or
resist fully don't do these half-hearted
measures now as they are going to bug
out notice he's not staying in the fight
there they're running off that was
punitive she goes and gets a gun from
behind the counter now let's talk for a
minute about a gun behind the counter it
was utterly useless in a self-defense
scenario in this case she wasn't behind
the counter she couldn't grab it fast
enough which is why I always say a
firearm that is staged for defense needs
to be on your person especially in a
convenience store especially in a public
place you might be able to get away with
it in your home getting to a stage
firearm but here in any kind of public
place your office or anything like that
a firearm that stage behind the counter
is of no use in a defensive encounter
and because it's too far to get to and
it's too hard to get to now you notice
here that she's gonna take a shot at
this guy right here now notice the angle
of her arm
notice where the gun is pointed that is
not an aimed shot friend that is a
punitive shot she's just driving him off
with that and that is a dangerous and
bad idea number one she's not aiming
that gun her head is not behind that gun
she does not know where that bullets
going it is purely to scare those guys
often to keep them moving
but that bullet is gonna go somewhere
and you are liable for every shot that
you taken wherever that bullet lands
whether that is property damage or god
forbid you heard a person I can't tell
you enough get two hands on the gun
get behind the sights and only take a
shot where it will 100% go into somebody
who is an immediate deadly threat these
guys are running off I don't know if she
could articulate that they were in that
very moment a deadly threat though I
don't think anybody's gonna give her a
hard time about it next we see her come
out here and stick the gun out there and
kind of hang on to the door sill and
that is a bad idea as well do not go and
chase fleeing felons friends let him go
hunker down get in a defensive position
that if they come back through the door
you can put shots on-target because when
you go out there you have entered a
different transitional space that they
could easily have launched a counter
ambush or been waiting out there trying
to get in the car and they shoot now
you're in another deadly force encounter
the only time you want to approach the
doors if you want to lock the door and I
don't even recommend that just hunker
down get yourself in a good position and
get on the phone with 911 finally you're
see she's gonna be hobbling pretty good
here when she comes in and she's coming
in now she's hobbling pretty good first
aid skills and first aid equipment this
is why I always say you
may not get out of your deadly force
encounter without any physical harm you
may be hurt may be badly injured and
shot so keeping your first-aid kit on
your person having a stout stop the
bleed kit on your person incredibly
important in my opinion if you carry a
firearm you need to think about carrying
life-saving equipment and having this
skill to use it to apply to yourself if
God forbid you're hurt thankfully didn't
from what I've seen in the description
from her best friend that posted it
she wasn't badly hurt she's going to
recover but having those skills would
ensure in your case that's the case
because thankfully she didn't get hit in
something serious like a femoral artery
or something but we can't guarantee it
so let's learn the lessons here about
not ego checking an armed robber about
waiting our turn about keeping our tools
on us about only taking proper defensive
shots about not chasing fleeing threats
to cover our ASP
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