very few homes have security cameras
inside them today one of those shows us
what a home invasion is really like
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here at active self protection i'm your
host john korea today's video comes to
us from houston texas
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about midnight homeowners asleep in bed
these guys are going to come rolling up
four of them all armed we have audio on
this one let's listen in
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you can see them outside here with long
guns uh the new story from houston pd
says neither of them were hit in this
particular incident let's think lessons
okay i know there's going to be a ton of
speculation here because you had a lot
of dudes breaking into that house with
long guns and stuff like that and so
there's going to be a bunch of
speculation what we don't know is
exactly why it happened so let's not go
for that let's instead think about the
home defense lessons first of all we
don't know if they had any personal
connection or anything like that so
we're not going to speculate about that
before dudes armed and invading your
home serious business first thing i want
to say here you see took them about
three whacks to get inside that door i
can't tell you enough
exterior doors you should absolutely
reinforce bottom line basics on that go
down to the hardware store get three
inch case hardened screws and replace
all the screws in the door hardware you
know the strike plate and the hinge
plates with those three inch case
hardened screws and that will make it
much harder to kick your door in and of
course up from there would be some kind
of a door reinforcement kit or something
like that but that will make it very
difficult to kick in your door which
will protect you from something like
this because if they can't get inside
then you know you're doing okay now the
homeowner saw them in there i do want to
say these guys are rolling heavy man and
there's two dudes with long guns and two
dudes with handguns that does make me
super suspicious
that said just because they have long
guns doesn't mean you're out of the
fight it is though an indicator for
armed people as to why i generally uh
recommend and use myself a long gun for
home defense i want to have as much as i
can and since concealment is not an
issue i would prefer a long gun to a
handgun for home defense now some people
can't afford that they only can have one
okay i get it it's not bad to only have
the handgun but i'd prefer the long gun
if i could now notice these guys get in
the house they hear the homeowner
because the homeowner hears them and
they start backing off they really
aren't looking for a fight in this
particular instance i will say that as
the homeowner here you hear something
going on if you don't have loved ones
out there i don't think i would go out
in this particular place maybe flip it
on the light from where you were okay
fine but as you're chasing the threat
you're putting yourself in danger to do
that it's perfectly okay when you hear
something like that again if you don't
have other family members who are out
there or you know down a different
hallway or something to hunker down
holler that you have a gun and that
you've you've got the cops on the phone
and they're on the way and see if
they'll just bounce stay where you are
and hunker down if you don't have to go
anywhere now i know this part is going
to be just a little controversial
because he flips the light on i don't
think it should be controversial i think
this is a great strategy flipping that
light on says okay i want to be able to
see and i want to know who is where and
especially because he has a remote
switch here so clearly at some point now
who has the advantage well the homeowner
knows the home knows where things are
the attackers and aggressors don't so i
don't mind this any one bit now some
folks might say well it could give up
his position or whatever but i think
it's a good strategy and it got those
guys to go away because they realized uh
oh we're not alone here we don't have an
advantage here now of course you're
gonna see our homeowner come out here
and confront these guys with a gun in
his hand and and does he have a right to
protect his home with a firearm
absolutely yes just recognize how much
danger he's put himself in here to go
and look at the front door where we know
that there are four armed men at least
two of whom are standing at the door
with handguns in their hand and and of
course he's just woken up i'm sure he's
disoriented very difficult situation
which is why i mean this kind of danger
i would recommend instead hunkering down
if you can and again we don't know all
the circumstances if you got to go
secure loved ones or something
something's different now he gets his
gun up and decides at this point that he
wants to fire okay fine but notice that
he only has one hand on the gun this is
why we train and we want to train to the
point of unconscious competence because
he missed and of course that bullet
heads off into the wild blue yonder in
their apartment complex and potentially
endangers someone else if you need to
shoot it's because there's an imminent
deadly threat in your vicinity and you
want two hands on that gun and to have
all the grip all the sights all the
trigger that you're unconsciously
competent and that means training go
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you now of course they're going to shoot
back as well very dangerous at bullets
winging through this apartment complex
thankfully nobody else was hit in there
but incredibly dangerous all this that
goes down and and so this is why i say
hey hunkering down would be a good thing
this is a scary scary situation him
exchanging gunfire with these guys and
this is the other reason i really think
you want to be really fast and accurate
with your first couple of shots because
you want to put that first guy down or
at least get him running away so that
you're fighting fewer you don't want to
fight four guys armed with rifles you
notice that the guys with rifles did bug
out but he's still got two guys with
pistols here so if you put the first one
down quickly now you've even the odds on
your fight you generally don't engage
more than about two people before the
other ones will scurry off so get that
first hit because misses don't win
gunfights thankfully our homeowner
wasn't hurt here if you have any
information on who these attackers were
please get that to houston pd robbery
division and thankfully this homeowner
did enough to cover his asp