there's a reason that I say that my
personal boundary in an armed robbery as
I will not be tied up welcome to today's
active self-protection lesson I'm your
host John Correa today's lesson comes to
us from Palestine Texas in the United
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on the range I have listed a whole bunch
of news stories in this one in the
description so please go and read those
what you'll see is this guy here who is
a convicted felon walks into this store
and and order something and then you can
see in his hand right there he has a
firearm shows a firearm to the clerk
tells her to get down and then what
you're seeing here on the left side of
the screen is he starts to tie her up
with duct tape he actually was in the
store just a little bit ago and bought
some lighter fluid and put it in his
pocket now he ties her up with some duct
tape and duct tapes across her eyes as
well now this lady comes over in if you
go watch the news she actually is there
to visit her friend who had had a loss
recently and when she sees the fact that
he has a cross on she has over you a
Christian and when he says yes she gives
him a hug and then he pulls her into the
store and sets her by her friend and
actually ties her up with duct tape as
well and then ties her eyes as well he
buying folds her with the duct tape
significantly blindfolds both of them
now he is going to here in just a minute
now he's gonna get to register out get
all the money out of the register and
again this guy has a long history as a
bully as a ends up being a felon he had
just completed his parole and what
you're gonna see now is I finally slowed
it down to real speed as he is going to
pull out the lighter fluid that he
bought just a few minutes previously at
this store and he is going to start
squirting everything down and he squirts
down all the carpets and all the stuff
around he is actually going to start
putting some lighter fluid on the clerk
and on her friend who once again she had
showed up that day to check in on her
friend who had recently suffered a loss
and and had you know just going to
support her friend and so if you go
watch there's about a 20 minute
interview with her and she is one of the
most incredible people that I've ever
heard from on this channel and I didn't
get to interview her but there's some
pretty significant stuff there and and
she said she was just going to go
through this with her
Fred no matter what now this guy's
continuing to tie them up continuing to
put some more lighter fluid on I mean
you see him get the lighter fluid out
some more again he's starting to get
some matches out and I bet you you can
think about where this one is going so
he is gonna spray both of them down and
then what he's gonna try to do here is
he's gonna try to get the matches out
and light the fire on the floor but
that's not going to work and so actually
the the camera that they released is
going to stop right here just a moment
as he starts to light it it did not work
so he actually put the match on the
friend of the clerk there where she
suffered second degree burns over her
body go watch the news story she's gonna
turn out okay and they caught this guy
and they charged him with multiple
counts of aggravated assault as well as
arson he is facing up to three life
sentences in this case Bunker's want to
me we got to recognize that criminals do
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let's get to the lessons really a couple
of big lessons out of this one we're
gonna get to the biggest one in just a
second but this guy obviously he uses
obfuscation and you know hey I want to
pack a cigarettes or whatever but when
he shows her the gun this is when
everything gets going so you see him has
the gun in his hand and his right hand
right there and when you're in an armed
robbery friends one of the keys to
surviving an armed robbery is to wait
your turn if he's got his eyeballs on
you and he shows you the gun then you
have to wait your return because if you
if he's got a gun pointed at you and and
you try to draw he is going to get you
every time but if you look for your
opportunity you might find your
opportunity that said you also have to
have speed surprise and violence of
action and the ability to be fast with a
handgun is incredibly important and have
empty handed skills I'm gonna see that
here in just a minute now that when he
does that she gets down on the ground
and he is going to start tying her up I
will say that there you got to describe
and decide for yourself in advance what
your points are that you're gonna fight
no matter what and for me and for mine I
will not be tied up I am an armed
citizen I will not be tied up because
nothing good happens
after you get tied up the odds of bad
things going down go up dramatically
when you allow them to completely subdue
you in a manner like that so you got to
choose in that moment if you're gonna
fight back also the only time you really
could fight back is if you had a
significant empty handed skillset I
don't think that this lady had any
significant empty-handed skill set so
she really didn't have any opportunity
against a bigger younger stronger
opponent but if you have a developed
empty handed skillset you understand the
five DS plus one you know what takeaways
and how to do those kinds of things you
very well stand a chance and you may not
get lit on fire so please go train
please get to your martial arts training
please understand that this is
incredibly important for you to be ready
now this lady comes over just to see her
friend and and again she's doing good
things here and is gonna end up actually
giving this guy a hug and I just want to
stop here for a second and I want you to
recognize that violent criminal actors
do not think like you do I think so many
people expect violent criminal actors to
follow the same set of social mores and
social norms that good people do but
that is simply not the case he's willing
to give this woman a hug for his cross
that he has on him and I think it was a
crucifix and and share that with her and
then tie her up and set her on fire this
is where something like dr. William
April's unthinkable class really comes
in because it really teaches you the
psyche of violent criminal actors and
how they operate so make sure that you
get to classes like that I found it very
valuable for for me to take that class
now then you could see him here he is
going to actually blindfold her with
duct tape once again another thing that
I will not allow is I will not be
blindfolded that's part of being tied up
part of being put on the floor and it
makes you helpless before an armed felon
and I will not do that and you have to
decide whether you will be tied up as
well whether you will be taken to a
second location whether you will be tied
up whether you will be put on the ground
and if you do not have those strike
points in advance then you're gonna
actually have to do that calculus in the
moment and I just don't think that any
of us really are willing to do that
under that kind of stress and and of
course the outcomes here or why we talk
about those kinds of things because this
incredibly evil act is that this man did
was it was clearly premeditated now you
know if you go read the news
they caught this guy the same day
because of the the surveillance footage
and and they caught him in the the
parking lot of another convenience store
where they were absolutely certain he
was going to do this again
so guys I can't tell you enough you've
got to be prepared to defend yourself
and your loved ones in that moment I
would also say gosh you've got to keep
your tools on you particularly against
an opponent that's younger bigger
stronger faster
having your force multiplier on your
person keeping your firearm on your
person and knowing when it's time that
you're going to go with empty handed
skills and when it's time that you're
going to use that firearm that you have
on you and and knowing when that is is
so incredibly important and this is in
the great state of Texas both these
women had the ability to be armed the
right to do so they could have done that
had they wanted to and I can't tell you
enough I bet you in that moment they
probably wish they did now that said the
woman who was burned here the the
customer not she won't even a customer a
friend of the clerk go watch would you
know her attitude is she's recovering
fully and I just think that that's a
testament to the human spirit but let's
learn the lessons out of this one
friends let's make sure that we
understand what our strike points are
the things that we absolutely will not
allow to happen to us
so that we are ready when our turn comes
to cover our ASP
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