warning shots especially warning shots
up in the air are a really terrible idea
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I'm John Correa the founder and owner as
well as your host here at active
self-protection thank you for joining us
for today's lesson it comes to us from
Jakarta in Indonesia the new mantis x10
firearms performance system has all the
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draw analysis and recoil analysis it's a
fantastic upgrade and I recommend it
highly the information i've been able to
find out about this one is that this guy
in black in the center of our screen has
a knife out and he has threatened
somebody with it so the cops have showed
up we have audio here I want you to pay
attention to how many warning shots get
fired in this one
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there's actually another video that I
will link in the description that shows
when they actually took this guy into
custody took him forever to do so he
ended up actually eventually getting
shot one time in the leg
eventually that put him down eventually
they took him into custody but boy did
it take awhile
that's where this one ends I'm grateful
that the person who took this video sent
it to me so that we could use it
normally cell phone footage can't really
do that but occasionally we can if you
have video that you've taken on cell
phone of real-life defensive encounters
by all means send it to me I would love
to narrate it if it gives us all lessons
I just got to be careful with cell phone
because of the intellectual property
associated with it let's think about
lessons from today's video so we got to
recognize that all over the world self
defense is a human right not just an
American right it's for people all over
the world and of course police officers
all over the world have to deal with
this kind of behavior where you've got
somebody who is threatening people with
a knife and how you deal with that
matters and I really want to have a
distance tool like a firearm to deal
with somebody with a knife but watch
paying attention here there's a warning
shot that did what exactly to this guy's
if diddly and squat there's another
warning shot and again we've got three
warning shots at this point and what do
you do when the bad guy has zero care in
the world for you firing warning shots
so there's a third and a fourth and so
now pay attention to this our guy here
in the white shirt who is the authority
figure has fired at least four shots out
of what looks like a Jay frame five-shot
revolver so one of the big things that a
warning shots do is they decrease your
capacity and in a low capacity firearm
like a revolver that can be deadly
friend this guy's walking you down so
again what do you do when you're
intimidation tool doesn't work now know
this guy in a red shirt guy in the black
behind they're using environmental tools
you see this here he's got a chain
and the other guys got a you know like a
sign or something and sometimes that's
the best you got of course I'd rather
have a purpose bill to either have the
firearm in my hand dude walks at me with
a knife you end up making his day you
know him stopping that very very quickly
but if all you have is environmental
tools and you use them for what you have
I would much rather have a purpose-built
tool but sometimes you got to improvise
and you got to be ready for that now I
really want to pay attention here to
this dude on the right who is not firing
warning shots at all he fired at least
four shots trying to hit the guy in the
leg we say this all the time leg shots
are a terrible idea number one he
doesn't have the marksmanship skill to
hit it this is a very difficult at any
kind of distance and he's at about seven
eight nine yards right now
trying to hit a very small target number
two they are just as deadly as shots in
the high center chest too many arteries
and veins in there they often end up
being fatal anyways and so they're not
any less deadly to the person who's the
threat and they're far less likely to
stop the threat because if you miss by
even a little bit it won't incapacitate
at all and finally of course that he
misses all these shots and because he
misses them all that's endangering
people on the other side so the rules of
firearm safety apply those bullets are
gonna come to a stop somewhere so if
you're gonna do that put two hands on
the gun and have the marksmanship skill
to actually get a shot but I don't
recommend a leg shots at all either
because they're completely ineffective
here he fired at least five rounds at
the guy and it was completely
ineffective and the dude literally runs
off and runs away from people so even if
one of those five shots is the shot that
hit the guy I don't think it was but
even if it was it was completely
inappropriate because it didn't do
anything so if you have to shoot
somebody and I think this guy's a deadly
threat to a lot of people high center
chest in the in a in a anatomically
significant area is absolutely the best
now then as they're trying to get this
guy to a spot he keeps running keeps
running keeps running again we get some
more folks showing up and taking more
warning shots and firing more stuff in
the air and and if the the first warning
shot second warning shot eight warning
shot doesn't do anything the ninth and
tenth ones not gonna do anything and
this guy is endangering literally
everyone around him so when we talk
about well why don't you just back off
and give him space well as you do he
endangers more and more people as you do
more and more folks are going to be at
risk as you do more and more as going to
cause problems and again you've got to
stop that I think this is a great place
where I really wish these officers had a
Taser where I really wish they were they
had the ability here to say hey wait a
minute we got to incapacitate this guy
that they have a big OC fogger or
something like that that they can at
least get some OC on this guy and
diminish him so that they can bum-rush
him or something like that if you go
watch the final video when they finally
get to him it did look like there at the
very end that maybe they did get him in
the leg but it took him a long time for
that to be incapacitating and they
finally ended up when he finally sat
down being able to bum-rush him and get
that knife away from him and all that
but let's think about the dangers of
this stuff get rid of warning shots in
your life guys don't even think about
doing them because of all these reasons
as we seek to cover our ass