it's certainly your right to protect
your property with physical force but do
so in smart ways thanks for joining us
on today's act of self protection lesson
I'm your host John Correa today's video
comes to us from Murfreesboro Tennessee
in the United States after thorough
testing I recently changed my everyday
OC spray to pom personal defense spray
it's nasty stuff and I recommend it
highly this one's got a bunch of
craziness you can see these guys four of
them come inside the gun store from a
car across the street and start looking
around at firearms in the case and
there's a bunch of customers in this
store you can see all of them here and
I've just sped it up just for the sake
of time for about five six minutes
inside the store about ten minutes in
fact they're just looking around seeing
what guns are available and this is
pretty common now if you go read the
news story linked in the description
what you see is they've actually been
robbed twice in the past two weeks and
these guys fit the same MO bunch of guys
coming in parking the car in the same
spot and that starts to set off alarms
in the employees Minds because of the mo
is so similar now watch what happens
when the one guy by the counter grabs a
gun off the counter and runs out the
employee smacks the gun away from the
other guy and now they're going to start
running out and seeing what's going on
now so bad guy number one runs out with
a gun in his hand bad guy number two
doesn't have anything here but
apparently bad guy number one has two
guns that he has stolen from the store
with him and he jumps in the car like
it's ready to go
but one of the employees already has a
gun on him and now more employees are
going to file out and come out you see
the one guy who was part of this group
has his hands up in the air and while
he's trying to kind of run off or
whatever and you see one of the
employees is gonna chase this guy
absolutely down the block who ran off
not with guns in his hand that guy ran
off without any now one of the owners
here who was out catching this
particular guy who does have his hands
in the air so she starts telling him to
get on the ground and now go back the
other way by pointing a gun at him this
guy who brings his gun up is a customer
and so now one of the owners another
employee are holding the guys at
gunpoint in the car and then an and
customer is helping them as well and
they're gonna hold these guys got the
other guy back in and now finally police
arrived they arrested six guys with
several stolen guns there was a couple
of loaded guns in the car when they got
him thankfully no one was hurt
that's where this one ends boy I think
there's a ton of lessons to learn out of
this one and this time after the
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get better let's think about lessons out
of this one so the big thing on
pre-attack indicators on this one is
that this store has been robbed a couple
of times in in the last couple of weeks
using basically the exact same MO
multiple guys that are not regulars to
the store who come in who asked to look
at multiple guns up on the counter and
those kinds of things and because of
that Park in a particular spot and my
guess is again sometimes criminals they
share information or I think the driver
this second time was actually the same
guy from a previous robbery so they were
tipped off because the guys tried to use
the same MO a couple times I want to
talk about a couple of prevention
techniques here when you're in this kind
of spot number one if a guy wants to
look at a gun I think it's perfectly
reasonable as a gun store to say
absolutely I'll show you a gun can I see
your ID please
because what that ID does is it says hey
wait a minute you've got a valuable
piece of merchandise so I want to hold
on to your ID while you're looking at it
I'll need to see your ID if you're going
to buy the gun anyways and so therefore
if you want to look at a gun no problem
I will take your ID now that will
probably deter an awful lot secondly
look at the guy that's going to end up
stealing you see him looking through the
door he is looking at the door and
looked at it several times it's
absolutely a pre attack indicator that
something's going when they're looking
for their exits and he is doing that
multiple times looking back and forth to
the exit now then he takes off and what
are we looking at here so recognize that
what we are seeing is the the taking of
valuable property now of course that
firearm is unloaded doesn't even have
any magazines with it but yes this is
valuable property and I want you to know
the laws of the defense of property in
your area is this morally wrong of
course it's morally wrong and of course
they are okay to defend the theft of
property with physical force but
recognize that the defense of property
of deadly force the use of deadly force
requires a threat of great bodily harm
or death to the people around that's
really what it is now what we see here
is this first guy is
and off he has to apparently firearms
that he has stolen and grabbed off the
counter I think one another thing that I
would encourage all my gun store
employees to do is not leave multiple
firearms up on the counter
that if he's seen one that the other
ones are back under the case and those
kinds of things that are preventative
measures not doesn't blame them for
these guys coming in and stealing a
bunch of guns from them but it does kind
of minimize the risk because it gives
them less opportunity now this guy is
running away with a gun that we know is
not loaded that we know doesn't have any
magazines for it
so is he an objective reasonable deadly
threat in this moment that's what we
would need in order to use deadly force
against him in stopping him from what
he's doing now notice here we got a
couple of employees running out after
these guys and the guy who is going
towards the car is the guy who has the
gun the other guy running off does not
have any guns
but notice what the employee does here
he raises this firearm up and starts
pointing it at him now we know from the
news stories there are actually a couple
of loaded guns inside there but I want
to ask the question is this a good risk
that he is taking here now I think it's
a moral good to stop people from harming
you and stop them from taking what's
yours for sure however if the driver had
just put it and drive and then come
after him hard he very well could have
lost his life for that and so I don't
know that it is a wise thing and also
the guy running down you know and
running after this guy who is running
away and just in total flight puts him
at risk again notice as well that our
employee this lady who was running out
here who is the owner of the store
apparently she is running out with a
rifle that she has been showing to a
customer and not paying attention to the
fact that one of the accomplices is
actually running out right behind her
that's why seeing and paying attention
is so important and I can't tell you
enough in stressful situations staying
calm is a superpower so you can see
what's going on in your world staying
calm seeing what's happening and taking
proactive steps because this was very
dangerous no thankfully that guy again
hands in the air he's like hey man I'm
not a threat whatever ok fine but now
she has to deal with this gun in her
hand the whole rest of the time you
notice the fact that she has a rifle
that's not loaded or anything in her
hand and has her firearm out and now
starts pointing it at this guy now a
couple things I want to talk about here
is this the defensive display of a
firearm yes I think it is but notice
this guy has it both
up hey man I I am NOT a threat and she
has her gun up and on him this is
another reason I really do like low
ready
I really think rather than having the
gun pointed up at him to have it pointed
where she can see not only his eyes and
his hands but his waist again to take
him and and say okay what am I gonna do
now if he chooses to run off I think the
right thing to do in that instance is
let him run off yes certainly rather
than shoot him in the back because you
can't use deadly force if he's not an
objective reasonable deadly threat to a
person right now now let's talk about
this I'm not not employee but a customer
who decides in this moment oh okay I
have a firearm on my person I'm a
customer this store I'm gonna get in on
this act
he has definitely given himself a
significant amount of danger here
deciding okay I'm gonna draw my firearm
and get out here and start holding these
guys cuz again we know they have loaded
guns in there far better in that case to
get on the phone with 9-1-1 and retreat
even if they get away guys this is a
less risky proposition for him now
notice our lady here is using her gun to
point at people and go hey do this and
point over here don't use your firearm
to point at stuff that's why you have
another hand put that other gun on the
ground or whatever so they get these
guys in and I just want to say how risky
all this is that they're trying to hold
all these guys and get them on the
ground and and recognize the fact that
this is why I don't recognize I don't
recommend this because of all of the
fraught danger that we have here on so
many cases not just legally but
physically if they had decided to fight
back in those kinds of things so it
worked out okay here the last part of
this of course police show up what are
you gonna do you got a bunch of people
with guns in their hands and now the
cops are showing up to an armed robbery
they don't know who the good people are
and who the bad people are so you want
to be very cautious and this is why you
want to have a great holster on your
person and make sure that you're able to
put that gun away when you start to hear
the sirens and you start to see the cops
show up put that gun away so that your
hands are empty as well so you don't get
shot by responding officers I think this
is important so think about this is it
okay to defend your property of course
it is is it authorized to use deadly
force to protect your property no
specifically in the state of Tennessee
the answer is no most anywhere in the
nation and in fact anywhere in the
nation in this particular case being
that it's in the daytime the answer
would have been no and I don't want you
to get in legal trouble for your
self-defense so let's make sure we do
things
in the correct manner and also learn how
to move with a gun in your hand and not
point around with the firearm in your
hand such you're not endangering people
as you seek to cover your ass