in self-defense often an ounce of
prevention is absolutely worth a pound
of cure
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these guys getting out of the car are
apparently private security for this
house in a very upscale neighborhood you
can see the guy on the far side of the
car he's going to go to the back of his
car and get a large duffel bag out of
the car i don't know what's in that
duffel bag the news doesn't say dudes
roll up in another car and point a gun
at him and say hey man we would like
that duffel bag you have he does take it
from them and then try to get these guys
and stuff them inside we can see it from
another angle here you watch him point a
gun watch our guy that's closer here
think about drawing his own gun then
kind of try for a disarm attempt and we
can't see what's going on inside the
house but at the very least they get out
their guns in the fight you're gonna see
them here kind of dance around with him
a little bit finally get his gun loaded
put some shots on target his buddy is
going to try to shoot but his gun's not
loaded he's going to rack it a couple
times and then those guys run off they
did take their duffel bag so whatever it
was in that bag these guys lost it and
we get to think about lessons man what
a crazy incident i got a question for
you out of this one when is the last
time you checked that your defensive
firearm works whether your home defense
or a concealed carry gun how often do
you check that because this guy was
having a big problem and i'm wondering
when is the last time you checked if you
did too
remember attention buys you time and
time buys you options these guys
obviously have something valuable on
their person i don't know what it is i
don't know if it's elicit or list it you
got me but you've got to pay attention
to your surroundings we're in a
residential neighborhood okay somebody
could be coming but i'm going to pay
attention to see what's going on here
just make sure everything's okay
especially if i am transporting
something valuable so we know that he's
armed we know that he is capable that
he's transporting valuable stuff pay
attention to your surroundings that's
the only opportunity you have to really
get yourself to a place where you might
be able to avoid this kind of problem
whether that's getting inside quickly or
whatever and that's if one of these guys
is posted up as somebody who is you know
seeing what's going on and guarding and
even here our victim that's closest he
even looks at this car now now something
is wrong here they're stopping where you
would not expect them to be stopping so
you have to go from conditioned yellow
paying attention to condition orange
when you're using cooper's color code of
awareness something's not right here i
have to do something to make myself
safer it doesn't mean we're going to
combat mode here that's condition red
but but say something's not right here
i'm going to do something to protect
myself i'm certainly going to pay
attention to it because he doesn't do
that he's like oh that's weird and walks
away from it the only time he sees
something's actively actually wrong is a
guy's like three feet away from him with
a gun in his face so
the biggest thing here had he paid
attention and seen that guy come in
earlier we know he's got a gun on him he
might well have had the opportunity to
use the vehicle as covers see it coming
a little bit sooner get his gun out much
much quicker and not risk the deadly
threat that he did in this particular
case but because he didn't do that now
he only knows he's in a fight when the
fight has already come right to him so
now you got to play counter-ambush
techniques and that is a much dicier
proposition for sure also watch the
trailing accomplice here you recognize
that the second bad guy shows up he's
the guy that's the driver in the car i
think so it takes him a while to get
there the tail gunner is somebody you
always want to pay attention for and
multiple attacker engagements are an
order of magnitude more difficult than a
single attacker engagement so be ready
for those and recognize what those are
now then so we go to the second angle i
want you to pay attention to the fact
that our dude here is thinking about
drawing his gun he is carrying a gun in
front of him in in front of his hips so
kind of an appendix carry how fast can
you draw and get a good hit on an
attacker well you better know that
because guys paying attention to his
partner here he needs a sub 1.3 or 1.4
drawdiffer shot from his place of
concealment in order to get that hit but
we know he also doesn't have a round
chamber he is going to have a heck of a
hard time getting that into the fight
especially with a second accomplice here
coming so he's not going to be able to
do that keep your gun chambered and keep
you know your skill set high because
instead he decides here to try to kind
of paw at the guy's gun and try a disarm
attempt friends i'm just going to tell
you if you're going to try a disarm
attempt number one you've got to work it
from the right distance the plus one in
the 5ds plus one is to start at the
right distance and to control that
distance and if you don't control the
distance first guy's going to pull that
gun back from you and can very likely
murder you with it we see that in real
life incidents time and time again we
see it on the matson training time and
time again so you got to do that and
then deflect and dominate you've got to
dominate that hand big time because if
you don't he pulls it back exactly like
he does here and he could easily have
shot our dudes in this particular case
now then you notice that our defender
one of his big problems here is that he
he doesn't have a chambered firearm yet
is that he's got a gun out but he starts
his gunfight with a malfunction he
starts his gunfight with a
malfunctioning gun that is not ready for
the fight that he is in and therefore it
costs him significant time he has a
deadly threat in his vicinity to him and
to his partner and he has a broken gun
carry your firearm with a round in the
chamber and a quality holster be very
cautious with your administrative gun
handling for that but when the gun fight
starts you need that gun to be ready
right now so he finally gets his gun
chambered and gets a shot off now let's
think about his partner he gets a click
and now you notice here he's he has now
you know run his slide really hard
because he started his gunfight with a
malfunction as well a purposefully
induced malfunction that he did himself
we know that that's exactly what he did
because the second time he does it you
can see right here that it actually
extracts around so his first one we
didn't see any brass go why because he
had an empty chamber because he's
carrying his gun empty so then he does
it twice for some reason to make sure
his gun is there so we know that he was
carrying with an empty chamber
and and again that makes your draw to
first shot time not only significantly
longer but the motion to get the gun
into the fight much bigger which makes
you a much more bigger visual target
that the your attacker knows that
something is going on so practice that
draw the first shot know when your
counter ambush time is the bigger one
here is to pay attention to your
surroundings so that you know what's
going on and you have more time in order
to protect yourself these guys didn't do
that so they made two classic mistakes
they didn't pay attention to their world
their firearms weren't ready for the
gunfight that they had coming they
didn't know when their draw times would
help them and when they wouldn't and
because of that they lost whatever it
was was in that bag and did not cover
their asp