how do I say this politely if you open
carry in a non-retention holster
you're as wrong as a football bat
welcome to today's active
self-protection lesson I'm your host
John Korea active self-protection
exists to educate good people like you
to protect yourself and your family from
criminal violence today's video comes to
us from Wichita Kansas in the United
States and it shows a guy who's minding
his own business but he's targeted
because of what he has on his person
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defensive skills so what we see here on
the right-hand side guys just working on
the door of his car he's got the hood up
whatever now you can see at the top of
the screen this guy's walking over and
Connacht peeking in and seeing who this
guy is and the guy has a gun on his hip
and our bad guys just gonna reach out
grab it and then point it at our victim
and I'm gonna walk off with it and of
course our victim is really frustrated
by that but there's really not much he
can do about it he had to submit to the
guy because a guy took his gun now he
grabs his phone and I've sped this up
for the sake of time he could see how
fast the time is going at the very top
there but he's gonna kind of try to take
pictures of him and whatever and the
news story says they did end up catching
fourteen-year-old kid who stole his gun
from him and now our our victim is gonna
go and call cops and that is where this
one ends I got to admit this video
drives me just a little bit batty
because of how preventable this crime
was today's video I have a poll question
for you do you ever openly carry let me
know in the poll what your stance is I
almost never open carry in fact I can't
think of any time in the last five or
six years that I've openly carried a
firearm perfectly legal in my home state
of Arizona I just don't think that it
offers me any advantages but do you hit
the pole let me know what you do out of
today's video I want to talk about the
importance of a retention active
retention holster for those who choose
to openly carry about the importance of
paying attention and why compliance can
be a strategy when things go wrong so
especially if you openly carry a firearm
you must pay attention to your
surroundings
you're concealed carrying this isn't
quite as much because you're not
broadcasting look I have this high
valued piece here but if you are openly
carrying a firearm in any capacity and
that includes sticking one in your back
pocket which is what I can kind of guess
this guy's doing I could be wrong about
that but notice he's not paying any
attention this guy's able to walk right
up to him and he never gets any kind of
inkling that somebody is around him now
I'm not saying you have to be paranoid
of your world but paying attention using
your ears hearing what's going on in
your world as well as seeing it not
being so engrossed in what you're doing
that you don't hear footsteps
approaching is imperative particularly
if you're open carrying now again I
think open carry should be legal I think
open carry should not be something that
I would do but you know I think that if
you do it it is imperative on you to not
only pay attention but also the next
thing we're gonna see here is to wear an
active retention holster because this
guy is just gonna walk right up and snag
the gun right out of the holster which
tells me again no retention a openly
carried gun needs an active retention
holster and while I'm here allow me to
say that hold that retention holster
should not be a Serpa Serpa is hot
garbage
I'm gonna put a link to my video on why
the serpent is hot garbage as well as to
a recent article from Greg Ella Fritz
who shows all of the problems with the
Serpa and all of the places that ban it
and all of the documented instances of
problems with it it is not the right
choice probably the right choice is a
Safariland
ALS were a 5 11 thumb drive something
like that something that does not use
the trigger finger to release their
attention in any way that said active
retention on the holster is imperative
now when the gun comes out guy gets the
distance from him and so our victim now
has to comply this gun that was his that
he thought was going to protect him is
instead now being used against him so in
some instances compliance is the right
strategy at that point his advantage of
operates and there's really nothing he's
gonna do now he's in a position of
having to implement the five DS plus one
but because that bad guy is retreating
he can't control the distance and
because he can't control the distance he
can't take that gun away from him at all
therefore compliance is probably his
best choice and sometimes that is your
best choice all the more reason to have
a retention device on your holster you
absolutely have to now I also want to
think about the fact that this guy's run
off and now our victim is going to go
run after him with this phone wait a
minute guys just
a gun from you you know he has bad
things in mind for you he's been wont to
point that gun at you he has just
committed you know aggravated assault by
pointing it out you and threatening you
with it and you're gonna chase him down
with a phone bad idea
instead retreat get a good description
of him with your eyeballs let the cops
get a hold of him friends this video is
a fail on every level this is a failure
to wear the correct holster this is a
failure of awareness of attention this
is a failure to understand of keeping
yourself safe do not fall into these
traps instead I want you if you open
carry which I don't generally recommend
for almost anyone but if you do it needs
to be in a quality retention holster
with a quality gun belt so then that gun
cannot be taken off your belt without
your permission and you need to pay
attention to your world even better to
cover your ass
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