the most important part of winning a
defensive gunfight is having your gun on
you welcome to today's act of
self-protection lesson I'm your host
John Correa today's video comes to us
from Ghana in Brazil after thorough
testing I recently changed my everyday
OC spray to Palm personal defense spray
it's nasty stuff and I recommend it
highly
we actually have four angles of this
event the guy to pay attention to is
this guy in grey he is our resident
off-duty with a table full of friends
notice it's one o'clock in the morning
here on 19 October and the bad guys show
up one jumps off with a gun out so he
responds as well gets a shot off at that
guy guy gets at least one back in their
direction and everybody goes and
scatters news story that I have linked
in the description says actually nobody
was hit in that he's gonna take some
shots at the guy who is riding off on
the motorcycle now we have a second
angle from inside the burger shack where
this one is you see the guys hey they
put their hands up and surrender
whatever then the gunfight starts and
everybody scatters again the dog runs
off he knows what the heck is going on
here
a third angle here we see him actually
trip on the step the bad guy did I think
that's a stroke of luck in this moment
and you're gonna see our good guy on the
left side they're actually chased around
to see where he had gone then comes back
around this side to get to the
motorcyclist as well and takes some
follow-up actions from that we actually
have one more angle out of this one as
well you see our bad guy walk up trip
over the step and then run off when he's
got bullets headed in his direction
legend has it that the dog is still
running to this day as our good guy is
looking and getting some good shots in
the direction of the bad guys but again
looks like nobody was hit in any
capacity and then he finally stops
firing here and now it's time for
follow-up actions he's gonna start to
check in on everybody finally get on the
phone with 911 they're still looking for
these bad guys as far as I know and that
is where this one ends I mean he did
enough to win his fight so we're gonna
give him full credit for that if you
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alright let's get to the lessons so many
lessons in this one first one this is a
transitional space that's where bad guys
can attack with an element of surprise
you're on the sidewalk like this you
have to pay attention and that is the
biggest thing about transitional spaces
you just can't be engrossed in your
phone you've got to pay attention and
what I notice here among our partygoers
is that the guy in the green shirt
actually is paying attention you can see
he's looking and seeing those guys
coming but our defender here the guy in
the gray shirt actually isn't and I get
it you can't see all things at all times
but attention buys you time and time
buys you options especially when you're
in a transitional space like this you
have to be paying attention now what our
guy in gray is doing adequately and
correctly is he has his gun on him can't
say enough if you possibly can if it's
legal in your jurisdiction carry your
firearm with you everywhere you go the
gun in the car is not going to help even
if that's their car and the guns there
it's not gonna help has to be on your
person and ready to go in that moment
and that's what won the day here the
fact that the guy had his gun on him so
pay attention especially in transitional
spaces and keep your tools on you is the
start of all this now I want to notice
where our good guy starts going is you
notice here that it starts and you see
him lean way back like that and that has
somewhat to do with his carry position
he's carrying on his strong side hip and
it's harder to get to a gun carried in
your strong side hip when you are seated
like this it is a reason that I like
appendix carry I am not telling you you
have to appendix carry but I am saying
that you should practice your seated
draw and you should know how to draw
from a seated position and draw quietly
you noticed here that this guy has
motions are super big by quietly I don't
mean with auditory noise what I mean by
that is drawing without drawing
attention to yourself so with minimum
amounts of motion to launch an effective
counter ambush notice our good guys
gonna get way back here then he's gonna
stand up and drive the gun out from
there takes him almost four seconds from
the time that he sees the stimulus that
he needs to shoot to get his gun out and
on target and the loudness of that that
how much visual motion there is brings
the attention of the bad guy his way and
that's what causes in problems so he
actually got the shot off first here and
the bad guy then though was looking his
way because of all the motion and
because of all the motion it drew his
attention and he fires off around now
our good
did get the round off first and we say
all the time the first one to put a shot
in an anatomically significant place
almost always wins the defensive
encounter now that said sometimes the
gun wins the fight just as a noise maker
and that's what it did here however I
think it would have been much better
served to put that first shot on target
rather than miss with that one so that's
why our marksmanship fundamentals are
key and a fast and accurate drawing a
first shot happens and the reason that
it the first shot so important is you
notice that the good guy here got fib so
he got a shot off in his direction it
was a wild shot the bad guy doesn't get
any aim on it at all but that gun going
off gives that fits of fudge I'm being
shot at and that effects good guys as
well so one of the big reasons I say you
got to have that strong fundamental
marksmanship cuz the first shot maybe
the best shot that you have to actually
get one on target now he starts taking
good follow-up actions here looking for
you know more shots looking for
follow-ups and those kinds of things but
again from the perspective of being
well-trained notice what he's got going
here is he is now kneeling and using the
gun one-handed I don't know anywhere
that teaches one-handed kneeling shots
from this kind of position specifically
and especially because he has no reason
to only have one hand on the gun the gun
works so much better you're able to get
more shots on target more accurately
with two hands on the gun then you are
with one hand on the gun please please
please trained to put both hands on the
gun reliably this is a marker of bad
training and I see it all the time in
Brazil especially I don't think most of
their military police are highly trained
some are but but generally speaking it's
a minimum modicum of training and so you
got to work to get two hands on the gun
and understand how to use that see that
several times come into play here now
then we see our from our good guys
perspective from the intended victims I
do notice here that our employees just
put his hand up in a surrender posture
and you know what if you do not have the
tools on you if you do not have the
attitude the skills and the plan
compliance is probably your best bet in
that instance okay dude you're
threatening me fine you know again if he
wanted to murder me he'd you just walked
up and shot me so again he's threatening
me with a gun okay I don't have any
other options here I'm gonna go ahead
and give you my stuff but of course I'd
rather have other options and giving
into a felon like this and so having the
gun on you gives you the opportunity to
actually be a defender in this instance
and as we see the guy think we got a
stroke of luck here you notice here that
cuz it drew his attention all that
motion drew the attention of the bad guy
he missed his step and I think that
that's actually pretty significant a
significant stroke of luck here now that
said you notice he has been paying
attention here but it was all the motion
that drew his attention had that not
been the case and our good guy been able
to get a nice visually quiet draw the
first shot you know drawing what we call
it active cell protection in our classes
from the pool of Tranquility with a
minimum amount of unnecessary frenetic
motion then this guy probably wouldn't
have seen him and the first shot would
had a more of a chance to be on target
so instead though you notice here that
you can see the puff of smoke on the far
right of the screen about two-thirds of
the way up you can see the fact that our
good guys shot and missed now which
direction did it miss in did it MIT I'm
gonna guess almost certainly missed low
left because that's where most people go
you can see it certainly missed low
whether it missed left or right I can't
quite tell but the fundamentals of
marksmanship are key and King you're not
gonna get in a hundred gunfights in your
life so learning to get some stress in
your training so that you put that first
shot on target is incredibly important
when we do that in simunition z-- we do
that in force-on-force we do that by
getting some stress inoculation with
timer stuff like that now he's taking
some other shots here he's looking for
bad guys and now again I want to see why
this one-handed shooting is not what I'd
recommend when that shot breaks look at
how high his muzzle rises and how much
lack of control he has with the gun it
is demonstrable it is easy there's
absolutely no question about it the gun
is easier to control with your support
hand on the gun so I really want all a
Spurs to train with two hands on the gun
and dropping things that are in their
support hand so that they can get two
hands on the gun if at all possible now
the next thing again is this you know
low kneel that he's in here and
one-handed position but what I want you
to notice is notice his gun
notice that the muzzle of his firearm
when the shot breaks here is super low
he is not accessing the sights on this
gun he is not focused on the front sight
can't tell you enough at any kind of
distance maybe inside five yards and
maybe as much as seven four really
highly trained shooters but certainly
beyond seven yards you have to access
your site in order to get shots on
target and just winging shots off into
the night where there are bystanders and
innocents around is highly irresponsible
so you've got to be highly trained so
then that way you access to the sights
see the front sight as it comes now as
we change
yet again as it's coming in the thing
that I want to notice here is again the
bad guys gonna run off okay we've seen
that multiple times the dog running off
is kind of funny as long as the dog
wasn't actually hurt and and then when
our good guy comes in what I want you to
notice here is the problem with what
he's doing right now from a fundamentals
perspective as you notice he's moving
downward the guns moving upward he's
assuming a crouched position and
shooting at what he considers to be a
deadly threat now we can't see it here
so I don't know if the guy that's riding
the motorcycle has a gun as well that's
an objective reasonable deadly threat
I'm not gonna say all that but notice
all the planes of motion he's moving
forward his head is moving down his body
is moving down the gun is moving up and
LU moving left and right really
difficult to get a good shot in those
conditions especially when your
fundamentals are not incredibly sound so
learn to stand and deliver is really
what I'm saying here friends I get him
getting down that's great now then
everyone else got the heck out of the
way really smart get some cover get
small get concealment whatever and then
get on the phone with 911 we talked
about doing the follow-up actions and as
I learned them from the legendary lawman
Chuck Haggard did I hit him is he down
does it do I need to shoot him again did
he bring any friends to this fight do
they need to be shot then I assess
myself and I hurt is am i okay then I
look around as anybody else need help
now get on the phone with 911 in Brazil
you get my point and get help on the way
and then make sure that you get that gun
put away safely and reliably so at the
end of the day our off-duty here did
enough he won the fight and success
covers a multitude of sins but let's
learn about paying attention keeping our
tools on us make sure that we've got a
quiet visually draw a visually quiet
draw that we know that we can get that
shot on the first shot on target every
single time and then take appropriate
follow up actions with good fundamentals
to cover our ass