when the prey is armed the predator goes
hungry welcome to today's active
self-protection lesson I'm your host
John Correa today's video comes to us
out of Sao Paulo in Brazil the Mantis
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with their defensive firearms so we can
see the garage door opening in this car
pulling in that seems okay until you
realize when you go read the news
stories linked in the description this
is actually a car full of home invaders
who have hacked the garage door opener
on this house I've been driving around
and trying to hack garage doors and this
one works so they pull in you know I've
got dark tinted windows and you're gonna
see five dudes pile out of here at least
two of whom are armed and they are going
to ransack the place now I think most
guys doing this they're to thinking this
burglars or whatever now there's a guy
home with that gal down at the bottom
the news story says is a worker there
not his spouse or anything but our guy
who happens to be home and is apparently
working on this house is now going to go
back into his master bedroom or whatever
and grab a handgun and start
investigating what the heck's going on
well of course he's gonna see this group
of five guys now you could see that the
stairs heading up to his way right there
and one of the guys says hey go up there
and see what's going on upstairs and so
as soon as he hits that first landing
you're gonna see our homeowner get after
him see a couple shots come up his way
and now he is going to return fire and
once he starts returning fire those guys
forgot that they left the oven on and so
they are going to run off as our good
guy is still going to pie the corners
and see where they have gone now what
you're going to see happen here is as
they pile out and you see our dude does
not chase them that's a great thing
we'll talk about it in a minute they
actually leave the car there and one of
the robbers actually left his wallet and
his cell phone there and so the cops are
going to pick all of them up in due time
I am sure they scamper off and legend
has it that they are running to this day
nobody was harmed in this video and
that's where this one ends boy thank God
that homeowner had a firearm in order to
defend himself against all those home
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some lessons let's start this one by
talking about home invasions you can see
this is a Thursday at 10 o'clock in the
morning if you're looking at the
timestamp up there and this is when home
invasions happen now they're almost
never these kind of you know middle of
the night on burglars breaking in and
those happen too but we see them more
and more now during the day and the
reason for that when they talk to you
know bad guys who've been caught and
they say there's less of a chance for
somebody to be home and so because of
that people are working more whatever
there's more likelihood they can get in
steal stuff get out secondly they used
an electronic means here and are hacking
the garage door I don't think that that
can be prevented completely but I would
say if you are home even with the garage
door closed lock your garage door from
the door you know into the house if
everybody is home now sometimes that
doesn't work for everybody because of
things but don't expect an automatic
garage door opener to be a secure a
completely secure way you might want to
keep other means on that now then we
notice this home invasion is five men at
least two of whom are armed so when we
talk about our home defense plan I want
your home defense plan to include
multiple attackers about a third of the
tax of all kinds that I narrate here on
active sell protection involve multiple
attackers now I almost never see a good
person engage more than two before the
guys flee like this but having a plan in
place that says listen I can engage at
least a couple of bad guys with whatever
defensive firearm I have is incredibly
wise because fighting a gun fight
against multiple armed attackers is no
easy feat now then let's think about our
owner here is he's going out and he
hears something going on so he's gonna
go and grab his home defense firearm
can't tell you enough I really recommend
that you have your home defense tool
staged appropriately now what does that
mean depends on who's in your home and
those kinds of things but you got to
recognize he's coming out here to
investigate now he's got a hold of this
and you should be able to get that and
go and see what the heck is going on in
your world and and of course you got to
keep your guns you know safe from
unauthorized access and those kinds of
things now let's think about his choice
here ok so he has a handgun in the house
thank God it was a legally own handgun
there in South Paulo he surrendered it
to the police for the investigation when
it happened again in the news story ok
great but we talked about the difference
here between a handgun and a shotgun and
a rifle for home defense now that's
beyond the scope of a video like this
however if I said hey you're going to
a gunfight today with at least two guys
with a gun five of them present they all
may be armed as well would you want to
have a handgun or would you want to have
a long gun me personally I'd like to
have a long gun again they're all going
to penetrate tons of interior wools and
those kinds of things but the ability to
actually put somebody down with a long
gun it's pretty good so if you can have
those in your area oh properly built
home defense shotgun or a home defense
rifle can be a very very good thing to
have and I think they all have pluses
and minuses now I love that he doesn't
go downstairs in there though they might
be downstairs so he's kind of looking
and seeing okay is everybody okay is
he's investigating his house but this
gives him a good vantage point is you
see them come up here you notice the
fact that he has a choke point here so
he kind of maintains that so he can hear
what's going on that's very wise because
again they have to if they're gonna come
up and get him they've got to come up
this one place and that kind of choke
point gives him a good ensconce 'men a
place that he can easily defend now I
also noticed that our good guy here
number one has a good you know seemingly
decent technique here looks like he's
got some training but also you notice
he's fighting in flip-flops in a pair of
shorts man you just gonna dance with
what you brung on that day so make sure
that you know you're ready to fight as
you come now that's out there if you
look that's coming from the bottom up
that's not our good guy shooting that's
the bad guy shooting and I do want to
notice that our good guy moved very
quickly so rather than just stand and
have a gun fight he saw the problem and
moved himself to a more defensible
position and yes they're gonna put some
shots his way but they saw the fact that
he was armed so moving with a gun in
your hand and getting yourself to a good
position might be the right choice
rather than standing and trading shots
might be getting yourself to a place
where you have concealment and they
can't see you and that's exactly what
our good guy did here that's really good
now you notice here that he pops out and
sees a guy and gets a shot off as well
it doesn't look like he hit anybody here
in some sense the gun was more of a
noisemaker than anything else but I want
to notice that the mere presence of a
home defense firearm the mere fact that
this guy had a firearm available to him
and was willing to use it got it and
actually put it out in the fight the
fact that he didn't hit anybody of
course we got to think about the fact
that that you know he that bullets gonna
come to rest somewhere but the fact that
he had it was a significant difference
and caused those guys to run off and
this is incredibly important the very
fact that there was equal force to what
they had
got this guy to be safe now you notice
here he's poking in and out and he's
jumping back and forth and I don't
really recommend that that's again for
another day but he did something
incredibly excellent here and he did not
chase a deadly threat this is something
I see people do all the time that gets
them in a lot of mortal danger is that
they chase deadly threats because
they're predator Drive kicks in here our
good guy did not do that he hunkered
down held this position knowing that
they were gonna have to come up the
stairs to come get him and he let them
run off that was incredibly wise now
again if we take a second his you know
popping in and out and popping in and
out wasn't the best technique there the
best tactic but it worked for him in
this instance because those guys didn't
want to continue to have a gunfight with
him good well hey you know it doesn't
matter a whole lot of things there as
long as they get the heck out of there
this was a very successful home defense
now somebody might well say and say well
John you know he didn't get these guys
he should have chased them because now
they can go rob another day or whatever
but guarantee they're not gonna rob this
house again and that's where his duty is
his duty is to protect himself and his
family and his loved ones he did that
with the plump so thank God he had a
home defense handgun thank God that it
was ready thank God that he had enough
skill in order to get after it in the
moment so I can't tell you enough the
lessons out of this one have a home
defense tool have it properly staged
know where the defensible positions in
your home arc don't chase deadly threats
but make sure that you're ready to
return fire to cover your ass
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