if you use your firearm in self-defense
you are responsible for every round that
comes out of the
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muzzle hi everyone welcome to today's
lesson here at active self- protection
I'm your host John Korea today's video
comes to us from Fort Wayne Indiana
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below in the right lane here I want you
to pay attention to the red Minivan and
the sedan that's just behind it they are
going to get into a little altercation
because of some road rage so I've sped
this up simply for the sake of time
watch the sedan try to get around the
van and then he's going to kind of buzz
into his Lane a little bit and that's G
to cause some frustration and
consternation for the guy inside the van
then you're going to watch that you know
the guy's going to be frustrated about
that now watch our sedan driver's going
to cut him off and break check him which
is going to make the van driver go
around cut him off almost hit him there
apparently he didn't according to the
news stories then the second guy's going
to actually hit him the the sedan driver
and then get out and go yo what's up now
watch he's going to come over and punch
the window in and hit the guy in the
face and you hear what happened there
our dude in the minivan had a handgun on
him and had the gun ready to go and shot
three times shot and hit the guy twice
once in the arm and once in the shoulder
out of those three shots and then though
one of the people in the car behind that
guy it shattered the glass and injured
them as well and then our dude who was
shot twice ran off he actually the the
driver who punched through the window
has been charged with a misdemeanor
battery charge for hitting the uh the
car with his car our other driver though
our our minivan driver has been charged
with criminal Reckless which is a Class
6 misdemeanor for the shot that went
through and shattered the window of the
car behind the guy and caused injury to
the passenger in the vehicle how many
times do I have to jump up and say road
rage is
stupid road rage is stupid this is why
big A+ number one lesson here is that
road rage is stupid everyone I I just
can't say this enough especially I'm
going to say for the guy who's in the
red car because he's the Firearms
carrier that's who I'm assuming I'm
talking to here the idiot hotthead in
the sedan is an idiot hotthead the other
guy though man if you carry a gun you
got to have gun on ego off man you you
carry the means to do deadly harm to
somebody you have to have no ego let
this go guy cut you off all right man
whatever come into my lane whatever
you're lucky you picked a guy who's a
good Saint sober moral prudent person
that action there was not good Saint
sober moral and prudent now then guy
cuts you off and hits you okay fine now
you got to do something about it cuz
you've been in a traffic accident but
this is why we say a life lifestyle of
deescalation escape and evasion is
absolutely the right thing for a self-
Defender so you might say wait a minute
I think actually in the moment we're
going to talk about this in a second I
think his his decision to pull the
trigger on the guy probably was
justified however he could have avoided
it he could have avoided the whole thing
by by not giving into the road rage
remember you do not have to accept every
invitation to fight that you're given
and every fight you get away from is a
fight that you win now homie comes out
here and now he's exiting the vehicle
okay fine and I really like that our our
dude in the minivan here has his windows
up hopefully doors locked whatever you
know I will say that the guy in the
sedan here he's a okay why why are
you getting out of your car why are you
causing a car wreck now you got to get
in a fight with somebody that you're
never going to see again in your life
this is purely ego driven and and listen
friends I I get it tempers are short but
you don't know who you're coming against
here this guy jumps out of the car and
he's like oh yeah I'm going to punch
your window in not thinking this guy had
a freaking gun on him right well people
do do carry guns and so you shouldn't do
stupid stuff like this this guy you know
put the quarter in the juke box right
now then he punches the window in and he
actually breaks the glass you can just
see the glass shattering there as he did
which is pretty amazing to me now let's
think about did our guy in the minivan
have justification in the use of deadly
force I think actually the answer here
is yes and he did because now his window
his barrier to to being hurt by this guy
has been breached there are two angry
people who have just committed a battery
against him by hitting him with their
car and now they're just outside the car
would a reasonable person say wait a
minute he already he's strong enough to
punch in my window and now he's coming
after me and I absolutely fear that he
is going to pull me out of this car and
beat me to death I think that that is
probably a reasonable thing and so I
think from a justification for the use
of deadly force perspective I think he's
going to be okay and he hasn't been
charged with anything with actually
shooting the guy so he hasn't been
charged with aggravated assault for
shooting the guy who he shot so I think
that that even the district attorney
thinks yeah that was probably Justified
conduct however he shoots three times
and and that shot goes back through him
and whether it was the one that went
through his arm and then you know passed
through and shot and and broke the glass
or whether it was the Miss which is
probably more likely well guess what man
you're responsible for every round that
leaves the muzzle of your gun now if I'm
his attorney I'm going to argue and say
hey wait a minute I you know I want to
say here that I think this guy is
Justified in what he did and it was
tragic and it was accidental but it was
n criminally Reckless and that's what
the district attorney has to prove here
to prove the felony but of course you're
paying your lawyer hundreds and hundreds
and hundreds of dollars an hour in order
to do that you're going to hire a guy
like me to be an expert witness to
explain to the district attorney to
explain to the judge to explain to the
jury why this went down and friends it's
just not worth it this is why I say stay
away from road rage incidents and and of
course gosh man if you're the bystander
here this is why you keep a first- Aid
kid in your in your car and those kinds
of things also why hits matter guys Only
Hits Count and and just ripping shots
off towards the guy when there's a back
stop issue there hey you got to pay
attention always keep your firearm
pointed in the direction of least
consequence and someone's car is a high
direction of consequence now again our
dude here uh put the quarter in the jup
blackx so he gets to dance to the tune
right I I don't feel any sorrow for him
at all it's a good reminder to keep your
first aid kid on your person because you
might do something stupid enough to get
shot and in that case you probably want
to have some uh first aid kit available
to you also I want to note here this guy
shot twice once in the shoulder once in
the arm and he is still absolutely a
deadly threat if he wanted to come back
around now it did change his behavior so
I'm going to say listen very effective
in this particular case and and I'm not
saying at all that this was ineffective
because it changed his behavior okay
fine that's really good however shot
placement is King where you shoot
someone matters very much shoot him in
the shoulder you shoot him in the arm
yeah it did change his behavior but if
he was a more determined attacker he
absolutely could have continued his
aggression and therefore I want to
remind everybody this is why we say shot
placement matters Marksmanship matters
so of course we would say hey wait a
minute you feel like you need to shoot
somebody we want to get our flat range
skills really really good first but
after that we do want to think just a
little bit about whether or not you know
we have skills from in odd positions
like sitting in our driver's seat and
shooting out the driver side window
that's a more advanced class you got to
get through the flat range classes
before you can get there so hey get to a
class this year so then that way you can
kind of progress to those these kind of
odd circumstances and scenarios man I
think it's a terrible outcome for the
bystander of course I think it's a
terrible outcome here for our uh you
know our guy in the minivan I think it's
obviously a terrible outcome for the
driver of the sedan as well all this
avoidable on the you know in the idea
here of of just not Road raging right
you can avoid this entirely now uh
what's going to happen here with the the
misdemeanor battery that one will
probably stick my guess is that dude
only got charged with a misdemeanor
battery probably because the district
attorney thinks well you know the two
bullets in him and the bullet holes in
that you know recovery is probably
enough now will the the felony criminal
recklessness charges stick on our driver
of the minivan I don't think so my guess
is is that after a while what the
district attorney is doing here is
making him sweat a little bit charge him
with a felony let him sweat for a little
while let him spend a few sleepless
nights thinking about what an idiot he
was to participate in this road rage and
his actions harmed another member of the
commun
before hopefully he has a good criminal
defense attorney to you know uh get this
pled down into the misdemeanor range and
so he can move on with his life and pay
a price for what he did but not a felony
price now I'm going to say this is why I
I really recommend something like
Firearms legal protection because I
think this is a Justified use of
defensive Force but he's going to pay
thousands of dollars to his attorney uh
and maybe have to pay an expert witness
those kinds of things I I'd recommend
Firearms legal protection for anybody
that that's eligible for it for
something like this so then that way you
have somebody that's paying the legal
bills for you rather than you having
that over your head as well let's do a
better job here so that we can cover our
asp