if you have a home defense plan it's
worth noting that that plan has to
change a little bit the second you step
out your front door thanks for joining
us on today's active self protection
lesson my name is John Correa today's
video was sent to me by the home owner
and it comes to us about a half-hour
south of Paris France
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and I recommend it highly so it's 3
o'clock in the morning and you see this
guy walking in the yard and that has set
off the camera it's motion sensitive
camera and setting off the camera has
actually woken up the homeowner so he's
gonna walk around through you gonna see
him kind of in and out a couple times as
he sets off the motion camera well now
I'm gonna tell you I'm gonna leave that
a bit there you see this guy wandering
around the yard and again so now there
here's our homeowner looking because
they've had several instances recently
of people breaking into cars people
breaking into homes when people are out
people vandalizing stuff and those kinds
of things mostly a lot of crazy
teenagers but they've had some
significant problems with vandalism
damage and and theft so he sees this car
he doesn't know sees people coming in
and out sees that guy on his you know on
his camera so he's gonna take a picture
of their license plate then he's gonna
come back out and he has here in his
hands a paintball gun that is shaped
like an ar-15 he's gotten that to kind
of dissuade these guys who were doing
vandalisms and and thefts and those
kinds of things so he's putting on his
coat what he doesn't recognize is that
the people that are in that car are
actually French police officers and
you're gonna see when you jump out of
her car here pretty quick we have audio
let's listen in
okay I'm sorry I wake you up with the
music on the camera the camera I was
getting up and I think I heard the alarm
notification okay I see somebody walk to
the car boners yep then come to steal oi
thankfully these guys all had level
heads and these two officers didn't come
out guns drawn
and we didn't have bigger problems than
that now again a couple of things that
are of detail importance this man who is
here is actually an American here with
his french wife and their children been
living there for quite some time points
out all the stuff to the officers no
harm no foul in this particular instance
but maybe some lessons for us to learn
boy I'm glad nothing worse came out of
that I got a question for you have you
ever taken out your front door a home
defense firearm thinking that you might
have to confront someone I'm curious how
many of us have and what the results
have been so let us know if you have in
the comments because I want to talk
about it this one's got a bunch of
lessons but I'm curious what other
people have seen let's talk about it in
the lessons as well first thing I really
think is a good idea to have security
cameras on the house in this day and age
when they are really cheap easy to
install wireless have long battery life
so you know you don't have to wire the
house and those things I think it's a
really good idea to have some kind of
external home security that can kind of
keep an eye on things and alert you for
problems it's almost the same as what we
have is dogs right but I do notice
here that our homeowner comes out
without a shirt on no shoes on those
kinds of things I don't think that's the
best idea because if you have a problem
you're either facing it in your socks or
you got to go back and get your tools
anywhere so may as well get them before
you go out the first time now next thing
I want to say here is he sees that this
car is not you know normal so he's gonna
go take a picture of it
the fact that these were cops makes this
okay because they weren't aggressors but
if those guys were aggressive and if
they were looking for problems he's out
there without a shirt on and in his
stocking feet and and instigating a
problem once again take your tools with
you and think about things and maybe use
your telephoto on your camera rather
than walk right up to them like that
would have been a smarter deal next he
comes out with his paintball gun but
he's still got to put his coat on but
this is a mistake again get ready then
go out because be ready to go and the
next thing here that I see is he shows
them his paintball gun now he kind of
uses that as a show of force you guys
get the heck out of here if you come
after me I'm gonna hit you with this
paintball gun hopefully they recognize
it's a paintball gun
these officers but I don't know that
that's something that we would expect of
them I don't recommend brandishing force
like that rather I'd recommend you
having it available and ready to use now
of course once again he's still got to
put this coat on here I'd recommend you
get that on before you go outside
because you're not in a prepared mode
here but out in a space where you could
have danger and your attention is
diverted get yourself ready before you
go now notice here that the female
officer jumps out and she has her hand
on her firearm here this is a very
dangerous moment that she starts issuing
commands I think it's actually quite
reserved of her not to have the gun out
when she sees from a distance what looks
to me to be a rifle that this guy has
and I know people are gonna say in
France it's illegal for people to have
guns it's not quite illegal for them to
have guns just very difficult so she
could have been a live gun no question
but she starts issuing commands to put
it down I think he does a very good
thing here and puts the rifle down so so
recognize that if especially you start
to see oh wait a minute this is police
you really don't want to have guns in
your hands around the police because
you're gonna have problems with them
thinking that you're a threat to them so
get that gun out of your hand quickly he
does a fine job there of putting that
down and then he's gonna do a good job
of explaining what it is or whatever so
really admire these French cops they
were very cool about this now I think
maybe that was somewhat
what they ended up story when you heard
it is that one of those cops was out in
his bushes because he was looking for a
place to go to the bathroom at 3 o'clock
in the morning while they were on kind
of a stakeout so you know hey man I
wasn't I was on your property and I
shouldn't have been I get it we're
friends they have a handshake and that's
really good but recognize this could
have gone south in several places is it
okay for him to have a paintball gun to
defend his house no of course I'd rather
have him have a real firearm to defend
the house if he's gonna face deadly
threats but maybe the the paintball gun
is not a bad idea for vandals and stuff
like that that'll drive them up I'd
prefer something like a pepper blaster
something that could you know actually
incapacitate or minimum diminish
somebody who might mean you harm but
that's maybe not an accessible in a
place like France secondly I think
having an understanding of not
escalating conflicts and doing right and
smart things to put yourself in a good
defensive posture around your home and
in your curtilage is important and
finally I really do think that these
officers did a pretty darn good job of
keeping their cool of just talking with
this guy and thankfully nothing bad
happened here let's learn a couple
lessons about having our you know
security system set up well about only
going out into this you know unsecured
space once we're completely ready to do
so not brandishing our tools and making
sure that we're ready to put that gun
down if we need to get it out of our
hands maybe a good reason to have a
sling as we think about our home defense
tools and cover our ass