today's video illustrates why i say you
cannot put your safety in the hands of
an armed robber
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our purpose just shopping in the back of
the store here you see him get something
out of the cooler now watch what happens
here as he is just going to walk up to
the counter put his stuff down and when
our clerk is ringing him up just going
to draw a gun and go to work shoot him
once in the shoulder once over the top
of him tries to shoot him a third time
in his gun jams and that makes him run
off and now our our owner here at the
store is uh hurt badly but he gets out
of the danger zone is able to get
himself to a little bit of safety and
then
every bit of information that i have is
that he survived this attack and cops
are still looking for the perp and that
is some crazy stuff if you want to keep
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up first let's remember that perps will
very often cloak their intent like this
they may run in from outside gun up or
whatever but this is also a very common
tactic that they will you know get
something to put on the counter to
distract the clerk and in so doing
launch their attack when they want to so
we're going to see this guy do exactly
that he's just going to kind of be like
a regular customer okay cool i'm going
to put this stuff up here but of course
he's got a gun in his pocket now when
does he choose to launch his attack when
he puts that down and you notice that
our clerk here is looking away from him
so he's not seeing what's going on
because he's paying attention to his
register it's very common now i wish i
could say you could prevent all kinds of
attacks it's just simply not the case
because again he just gets ambushed here
from a place of doing his normal job now
he might have seen something in the
clerk's eyes or the bad guy's eyes or
whatever but just no time to respond
here okay so the guy just gets up brings
the gun up and shoots him so so this was
like a murder in action is what this was
this is very atypical armed robbery and
yet we do see it from time to time so
again somebody pointing a gun at you is
very serious and our clerk is nothing
he's gonna do here to stop this initial
shot now notice it wasn't a fatal shot
and he's a bad enough shot they shot the
clerk in the shoulder from here about oh
i don't know four feet something like
that so keep taking steps to make you
safer it's exactly what the clerk does
or he sees what's going on and and again
i think bends instinctively but then
starts to move and that is what probably
saved his life here because what you see
is you see the bad guy pulls his gun
back and you can just barely see you
know it's not very good resolution but
his gun jammed in that instance and i
don't know if it jammed because of the
glove that he had on or the fact that he
put it on the countertop or whatever but
the clerk moving out of the way getting
out of the way got him out of the danger
zone and gave him the time that this
guy's gun then jammed rather than
standing there and taking a second or a
third shot of course bad guys carry
crappy guns it does happen and i'm
grateful for that so so you know getting
out of the danger zone moving that hard
lateral step save this guy's life and
keeping moving those steps
really helped him now of course take
additional steps at that point dude ran
off okay fine do you have your emergency
you know uh first aid kit with you do
you have your trauma medical on your
person you need your trauma medical on
your person this was a shoulder shot it
wouldn't have responded to a tourniquet
this is the kind of stuff you gotta pack
the wound whatever you know if you've
got major traumatic bleeding that you
can see and get to the hospital as fast
as you can these are the kinds of things
that really happen in real life this is
why i don't trust felons with my safety
and you know again you got to move on
this one and make sure you have your
medical to cover your asp