when your car is stationary it is a
transitional space and you can never
forget it
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hi friends welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection i'm your
host as always john korea today i've got
two for you both from houston texas now
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these guys kind of just wandering around
here and looking around for what's going
on not doing what you would expect
people to be doing at a gas station
they're loitering they're looking you
can see the one kind of talk to the
other there and say okay it's this one
and and that guy who is to the left
without the hood up uh pretty quick here
he is going to decide you know what this
is our guy pull a gun and show it to him
and demand that he give him the keys and
whatnot the keys i think are actually
still in the car so now this guy's gonna
try to get into the car he's bonked that
guy in the face with his gun in the
process and then backed him off got gets
in the car now it's not quite over yet
as they go to try to leave and and this
guy jams out in front of them uh they
did not hit him ran off and no one was
harmed the second one you see these two
guys kind of a similar thing but the
dude's already got a gun in his hand at
this point now what you're gonna get to
see here it's about eight o'clock at
night in this apartment complex and
there's a guy in the top left of the
screen who is working on his pickup
truck is what it looks like in the
apartment complex or at least working
out of the bed of his pickup truck and
you see these guys kind of look at him
over and now they're going to decide yep
he's the guy we want to attack so now
they're just going to kind of casually
walk up with a gun in their hand and a
cost of this dude
now what you're going to see is they put
that gun right to his back course he's
going to turn around what the heck is
going on got multiple guys here and he's
just going to go okay man whatever you
want so this one's going to take a while
watch then as they are gonna shake him
down and take all the stuff out of his
pockets his wallet his phone his keys
all that stuff now they're gonna take
him back to his pickup truck and i'm not
positive exactly what they were looking
for here whether they're looking to
steal his truck or if they were looking
for
more money valuables phones
tools equipment i'm not positive but
he's just going to kind of hang out
there you know by the door there while
they both kind of get inside there and
see what the heck is going on and as you
can see it going man tick tick tick tick
tick tick the one gets in there he
passes the gun off to his buddy the
second one i think is going to dive in
there as well and then thankfully they
are not going to harm this victim either
they're going to get as much as they
feel like they can get and run off cops
are still looking for each of these
perps man we got some lessons on this
one i just want to say thank you to all
of you who come by every day for your
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one man first thing you got to really
pay attention to is you have to
recognize when people are out of place
remember when we talk about about paying
attention is more than just situational
awareness it's environmental awareness
as well as personal awareness and in
your environment you're looking for is
everything normal here is everything as
i expect it to be out of curiosity and
again when i see a couple of people that
are not doing what i'd expect people to
be doing in a convenience store gas
station parking lot i start paying
attention and i start going from
condition yellow to condition orange so
that might have bought this guy some
time here in order to handle this
problem you see a couple guys loitering
looking around talking to each other
surreptitiously they're giving off a
bunch of tells and pre-attack indicators
of course we also want to ask the
question what the heck is this guy doing
at the gas station doing all this looks
like he's got that big box like up on
top of his minivan and he's doing
inventory out there or something like
that this is a transitional space it's
not where you want to do those things
why because a doodle come up perhaps and
point a gun and your face is still your
car so when you recognize hey man this
is not a good place for me to be doing
this kind of activity maybe you could
avoid this altogether but of course in
this point if you got a guy pointing a
gun at you the thing to do right now is
either comply fully or resist fully it's
it's no half measures here so if you
want to get after this guy grab that gun
and start a disarm attempt okay that
might be your best choice otherwise give
him what he wants and and especially
here in this case where he bonks you in
the face with the handgun
now we talk about this all the time on
the channel if somebody smacks you in
the face with a handgun if they use it
as a bludgeoning tool and not a
ballistics tool it's less likely that
they're willing to use it as a ballistic
tool so if he hits you in the face with
it it's not likely he's willing to shoot
you with it i wouldn't bet my life on
that though whenever anybody has a gun
pointed at me i i assume that they are
willing to use it that it's loaded and
that it is ready to use
so you know but still it can give you a
little bit of understanding okay man no
problem you just want my stuff whatever
you want me to take you very seriously i
take you very seriously keys are in
there my phone's in there have at it man
i'll get the heck out of your way i will
say i do like here that our victim went
around you notice here that the victim
went around the gas pump and hid himself
from them i like that i wouldn't i'd
actually encourage once you get around
that beeline out the other direction and
get away as fast as you can but at least
getting out of their line of sight and
getting out of the danger zone is
important of course the the you know
all of the calculus would be very
different here if you had a family
member inside that car if you had a wife
or a child
inside that car totally different thing
now it's not a carjacking it's a
kidnapping and you're going to have to
fight so that they don't get taken plain
and simple as that in my opinion second
one here again this guy's working out of
the back of his truck and so i get it
you get focused on the task at hand uh
but these guys are again lurking and
watching and seeing you and so just kind
of paying attention and having your
radar up and seeing what's going on in
your world with regularity i think is
important and also recognizing we're in
a transitional space here as well and
and i get it man sometimes i've lived in
apartment complexes as well and
sometimes you just got to work you know
on your car in the complex and and so
you know we might say hey it would be
better if he could do it somewhere else
but it's just not a possibility but it
is always a possibility to pay attention
when you're in a transitional space and
your car when it's in a parking lot when
you're outside it you have your
valuables you're kind of staged around
it yourself is that same kind of
transitional space and you need to pay
attention in that space because
otherwise you are apt to be attacked or
sometimes it's not even an attack it's
something like you know there's a danger
to you a child missing somebody runs out
in the street or something like that
because again dangers jump out at you
and not just you know muggers here now
of course in this case he does comply
fully and i give him that and i give him
props for that in fact i think that that
again if you're not going to resist
fully and against two attackers like
this you've increased the difficulty by
an order of magnitude every time you add
an attacker you add a an order of
magnitude increase in difficulty and so
your best bet is maybe to comply and
maybe to purposefully comply and wait
until your time for a counter ambush
comes and i think there are several of
them that are potentially possible here
when they're not paying attention to him
but paying attention inside his car so
of course i would say yes keep your
firearm on your person though they
frisked him down pretty good and he may
not have had the opportunity to maintain
that gun it would have changed the
dynamic
very much but you notice he's just
standing here i would say that it's
probably a better idea
to get out of the danger zone if you can
and second they're not paying attention
to you to run and to get the heck out of
there as fast as you possibly can
because again they're they have a gun in
there threatening you with that gun
thankfully again in this case they did
not use it but we got two losses here
where we could have maybe prevented
their happening to begin with and even
if they had happen we have opportunities
to do something about it if we want to
and cover our asp