I've heard a lot of advice that if you
just comply with an armed robber they
won't hurt you but friends that's just
not always the case thank you for
joining us on today's active self
protection lesson I'm your host John
Correa today's video comes to us from
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needs tons of news stories in the
description on this one what you see is
a jewelry counter in a mall in lopburi
Thailand very difficult foreigners can't
only guns in Thailand at all but what I
can and what you're seeing here is just
Thai people going about their business
and what you're gonna see very quickly
his shots start ringing out in the first
second and now the third shot for shot
gets the guy who was standing in the
front and now this guy who is robbing
this store comes in now we see another
angle of it here that they lead up
you're gonna see right here is this
mother and her little one and I think
that this little one took the first shot
we blurred it for the sake of decency
and then this worker took a couple of
more shots as well and she did not make
it be see her climb off and now what you
see in the arrow here is our bad guy
walking on the counter and coming over
her way and he's gonna go back over the
counter where we saw him before where he
is now going to distill and demand about
twelve thousand dollars worth of gold
and again this is right in the middle of
a mall incredible stuff here
unbelievable stuff that that actually
goes down but he's gonna take a whole
bunch of stuff he's actually using
according to the news story link in the
description a cz that he borrowed from
his dad with a silencer on it he rides
off he was caught and is obviously
facing a host of charges and we got some
lessons to think about in this one scary
scary stuff all the way around I have a
question for you out of this one and
that's this do you get out of your home
country to travel abroad no matter where
you live ASP is a worldwide Channel but
I wonder if you've ever left your home
country and why or why not my wife and I
love to get out of the United States of
course not during global pandemics but
otherwise we love to we've actually been
to Thailand three times and absolutely
adore it there so I'm curious what's
your procedure in practice let's think
about lessons from today's video so
first of all let's talk about the fact
that
is difficult to own a firearm in
Thailand for foreigners it is prohibited
for Thai it is possible but it is
somewhat arduous and it is pretty
expensive when I was there just this
last year I mean buying a Glock is the
equivalent of three four thousand
dollars which is out of the realm of
most Thai so I would argue here that one
of the lessons that we learn as
disarming regular people in any way
possible does not protect them
because it leaves them a target for
those who would do them harm and those
who are willing so now we see these
folks in what's coming here and as
they're just going about their normal
day we see the first shots ring out and
you saw that fib subfactor and and this
is what happens when we hear those loud
noises but one of the interesting things
you got to see is the fact that this man
here was standing here it's still
looking at the jewelry so he hears a
loud noise go off and he doesn't even
immediately see what's going on I can't
tell you enough that when you are a self
defender you have to pay attention to
your environment
now you can't pay attention to
everything around you and be hyper
vigilant and ready to draw all the time
but when something goes on like a loud
noise like that instantly I want you to
investigate go to condition Orange and
investigate what's going on now from
that first time you see him start
turning and it's actually right at
exactly two seconds when the shot goes
into him that ends up taking his life
and I don't know that anybody could have
probably gotten a gun out that quickly
recognized that there's a problem and
got into the fight but even after the
first shot if he'd have seen and then
started moving he might have had a time
in order to do something that said
sometimes you can't win every battle and
this is why we talk about spiritual
fitness you want to make sure you've
said everything you need to say to your
loved ones because you may not get
another chance solve all the conflicts
you can and make sure that your
relationship with Jesus is strong
because guess what you may not get
additional opportunities in that day to
do so and so you want to do so now
because you can't always win every fight
simple as that now the other folks here
as things are going you notice here that
that there are people that are standing
around holding their ears and now we
start talking about taking action notice
that the clerks are getting down and
other people are getting away this is a
good thing get out of the danger zone
take action to make yourself safer don't
just stand there and watch you got a
flight or fight don't freeze move take a
step to make yourself safer notice yes
he does have a suppressor a silencer on
his firearms on his firearm actually
fairly common
in Thailand but I also want you to
notice in that in all the shooting that
it wasn't completely silent this is
something we learned suppressors don't
completely silence firearms and just
make the sound bearable now I want to
say as well you notice here that this
woman is just walking her little one and
if you go read some of the news stories
she's heartbroken about not being able
to protect her little one that said I
don't think there's anything she could
have done this guy just walks right in
and just he's the first one that goes
and again this is why we want to
practice spiritual fitness and make sure
that we need to said everything we need
to say to our loved ones and to pay
attention to our world because I don't
know if he had the gun out that it might
have done something but I certainly
don't blame her in this instance the
clerk as well when when she goes down I
think that you know again she's taking a
shot from before anything goes bad I
don't know that she could have done
something there but I do think that she
reminds us that first aid skills and
first aid equipment are incredibly
important EMS arrived as fast as they
could but they weren't able to arrive
fast enough you are your own first
responder so carry your first aid kit
make sure that you have that on your
person and that you've taken to stop the
bleed class because evil like this does
happen and that's the final thing I want
to talk about the fact of the matter is
compliance here couldn't have done
anybody any good at all this guy just
came in guns a-blazing and in the news
story when they caught him he said that
was just because he was bored and needed
something to spice up his life that is
absolutely absolutely evil friends and
this is the kind of evil that does exist
in our world so you need to take steps
to protect yourself from it you are your
own first responder that means spiritual
fitness that means first aid skills and
first aid equipment I carried my first
aid kit
all over Thailand everywhere I went all
the time and recommend no matter where
you live in the world you can always
carry a first aid kit on you carry the
best tools possible on your person that
means if you can get a firearm I would
recommend you carry your firearm in
public whenever legal and able to do so
and even if you don't make sure you get
out of the danger zone and take whatever
steps you can to protect yourself
because you are your first responder as
you cover your ass