i'm always grateful when i see good
saints sober moral people
ready to defend themselves and today we
get to see just that
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hi everybody welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection i'm your
host john korea today's video comes to
us from houston
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out of the car in the circle is
our perp go watch the interview on
active self protection i did
with the defender devrick on this one
there's no news stories it didn't
actually make the news
this guy's been wandering around
literally for hours in this parking lot
waiting for somebody
to choose to attack in the moment he's
armed with a gun now
devrick and his wife and his kids are
about to come on screen here from the
right-hand side
in his work van he's just a hard-working
man going to work
he and his wife and his kids are looking
for flooring for their house and this
guy just decides he's going to attack
him so you're going to see him kind of
pointing at the car and saying this is a
guy he's going to walk up to him and
this debris is trying to put his keys
away he says give me the keys
and when he doesn't he starts shooting
at him and now devrick draws his own
firearm
and now watch as the gunfight begins
when he drew his firing he actually hit
the perp
in the leg with the very first shot now
that didn't put him down though so now
the guy fires between 15 and 20 rounds
at him and finally debra hit him
one time in the chest with a glock 22
40 caliber hs not an hst but rather a
critical defense
and now that guy ran off so now he's
gonna jump back
in the car get his keys and decide we
are getting the heck out of here
obviously his wife is screaming bloody
murder the whole time
and his kids as well make sure you go
watch the interview we actually have
three interviews they're going to post
in the next week of a bunch of different
facets of it
now when his car hit the curb there he
said it it messed with like the posit
traction system something went wrong
in a vehicle where it wasn't responding
anymore it wouldn't go
and so because the car wouldn't go
anymore now they gotta get out
now we know that black car is actually
an accessory here it was
the perps getaway driver but he doesn't
know that so now his wife gets their
older son out he is going to get their
younger son
out and run off to a local dentist
office which is right nearby
call police and uh the perp actually
made it through this one
unbelievably the perp is actually not in
jail right now
they're trying to figure out how to
charge him uh because of a host of
things go watch the interview and you'll
read
and hear all about it thankfully uh this
man and his family were completely
unharmed and that's where this one ends
really good job here and this one is a
very atypical gunfight in fact some
things happen here that i almost
never see so let's talk about them in
the lessons
and think about why they're so rare so
there's a bunch for us to think about
out of this one but i think the first
thing is that sometimes you're just
gonna get
chosen for no good reason these guys
didn't have any relationship they did
not know each other
this was a total random occurrence
there's absolutely no connection between
them
so that means to me carry your firearm
make sure you have it on you
in the moment because you won't have any
opportunity to go get it certainly
deverick didn't
number two be ready and be highly
trained on that day so
big deal here denver had his firearm was
ready to go that was the biggest thing
now then first thing that i would say
really could have helped here
and devrick said it in the interview as
well is that he had a struggle here with
paying attention so he was trying to put
his keys away on his belt
and that kept him from seeing this guy
coming up so when you're pulling up
somewhere when you're getting out of
your vehicle remember that vehicle is a
transitional space
as soon as it stops so make sure that
you are paying attention to your world
and seeing what's going on around you
try your best not to get distracted with
what's on you what's in the vehicle and
those kinds of things
because again as we always say the
mantra is attention buys you time
time buys you options and you want to
have those options available to you now
not a whole lot going on from here in
terms of ability to de-escalate guy just
puts the gun up and says hey man give me
the keys
now of course when we talk about not
drawing from the drop we we say you know
listen if a guy's got a gun
up an onion says give me your wallet or
whatever and you try to draw a gun
you're going to lose that gun fight and
that is absolutely the case
but he push picks the gun up here and he
starts shooting and therefore he says
hey give me your stuff and then start
shooting at him
and once that happens and he says oh
okay man wait whatever there's a shot
you got to go and draw your gun we're
not drawn from the drop anymore if some
guy's actively shooting at you now
you're drawing
because it's the only option you have
because otherwise you're going to die
so i think that he did a really
fantastic job derek did here
of just getting the gun out quickly and
going to work and
and listen he did have a single hand on
the gun i get that in this instance kind
of hard because he's sitting down in the
seat whatever but of course two hands on
the gun would be best and his first
person to put a hit that often wins and
that happened here
because he did hit the guy in the leg
that at least changed his behavior and
made the guy run off rather than keep
shooting at him
so i think good job there now i also
like here
that what you see is is that debris has
pushed back from the vehicle a little
bit here he's not hugged right
up on the cover he is back away from it
a little bit of course
recognize that your wife and your kids
are in that car
so yes you want to hold on to the cover
if you can but
the fact that that that puts your loved
ones in the between you
and the cover and the bad guy rather is
a good reason to get away from it use
something else if at all possible
remember as well we want to be the
hunter here and not the rabbit so not
just you know jumping around but getting
after this guy
and there is a great opportunity here so
denver did really do a good job here
getting two hands on the gun getting the
gun driven up in front of him
and this is a real opportunity this is
why you've got to be really confident in
your abilities and have the competence
to back that confidence up
to know as soon as i see that guy i am
going to put a shot on target
and i'm going to have the grip the
sights and the trigger enough to do so
grip is the master side set the pace
trigger is the servant
in order to get a hit on this guy to
start changing his behavior again
with a high center chest hit like i said
he's hitting the leg but that didn't
make him go down
so now deborah's trying to figure out
where to go but here's a challenge is
that when you pop up in the same place
that the guy saw you last
there's a good chance that he is going
to be the one who is the hunter there
and not the rabbit so pop up in a
different location at a different height
at the very least
if at all possible and if that means
having to go around and and attack from
the other direction do so
try real hard not to pop up from that
same location now this guy is winging
shots
devrick's way he said he shot 15 to 20
times so that fibs a factor goes both
ways that fudge i'm being shot at factor
definitely affects us all
affects good guys as much as bad guys so
now he's trying to figure out where i'm
going here
finally gets into a spot where he can
see the guy and you can see he's got the
gun kind of
up and shooting with one hand now
impressively enough
he said he was worried about the
backstop the fact of the matter it was a
freeway so you got to watch that as well
and putting a hit on target here at at
what looks to be a pretty decent
distance probably certainly 10 yards or
beyond
is beyond most concealed carriers quite
frankly which is why you want to train
past that seven yard
you know idea i know a lot of people
like well i'm just gonna train at three
yards because
you know some myth that the average
gunfight is three shots at three yards
in three seconds that did not happen
here at
all and so you want to be ready to
defend at your gunfight because it's
very likely not
to be an average one when he finally hit
him in the chest got that high center
chest hit
that's what ended the gun fight guy ran
off after he hit him in the high center
chest
and and ran off and lived and i don't
even care about that
stopped the deadly threat that was the
most important thing and now
do things that make it safer for you and
your family
now this one is an interesting part here
is that you notice his vehicle gets
disabled and i think people
just drive off drive off drive off which
is true except for modern vehicles shut
themselves
down when they feel that there's been a
significant impact and and so those
safety features can work against us in
these situations
and you also have to recognize that if
your vehicle is disabled it is
a coffin in a defensive encounter so if
your vehicle is disabled you've got to
get away from it as fast as you possibly
can
now again you go watch the the interview
that i did with derrick and he says that
you know he was really grateful that
this
getaway driver didn't have a gun or
whatever but he didn't even know
that that woman was a getaway driver so
you know there's always going to be an
element of luck there's always going to
be an element that you're not able to
account for every variable
but i really think here that that in an
overall sense derek did a really
fantastic job
that he was armed and ready on that day
that he was willing to fight he had
enough marksmanship took four shots got
two hits
uh one in the leg and one in the high
center chest and that is
good enough now then i really want to
say as well i would really encourage you
even if your spouse is not a self
defender even if your kids are not
self-defenders
to teach them what to do in an emergency
to give them an emergency word that they
do exactly what you said that they start
taking steps to make them
safer it was good for the family here
we've got an interview with deborah
for us today on active self protection
extra a second interview coming up with
him
on the the legal and emotional aftermath
of a deadly force encounter on active
self protection extra
and and i really would encourage you go
sub over there so you can get that
information from him as well
i think this is great stuff devrick good
job buddy you covered your asp