there's an important difference between
the time to point a firearm and use it
welcome to today's active
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john korea active cell protection exists
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video comes to us out of you guessed it
brazil and it shows us a woman who
thankfully has somebody come to her aid
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as we begin we're gonna see this black
car pull up and park and I think he's
just parking kinda out of the blue this
is maybe where he's getting out or
whatever what we're gonna see here is it
slows down to normal speed is this woman
kind of come over see this guy on a
motorcycle and start piling the stuff
out of her bag and you go why would she
do that well when the guy gets off his
bike you can see he has a firearm and
his threatening her with it so she gives
him her phone and as he puts the gun
away we're gonna see the guy in the
black car get out hi how are you he is
an officer who looks like he just got
off duty looks like he is wearing part
of his uniform there dude's gonna give
it up and now the officer is going to
get him down on the floor and put him in
some restraints and it's kind of funny
the woman and her dog the woman who got
mugged here is gonna come back up and go
oh okay maybe I can get back this piece
of clothing that I lost but isn't
interested in her phone apparently at
that point let's go back and see it one
more time as she sees the guy he's
obviously waving a gun around at her and
puts the gun a you know in his other
hand it's in his right hand grabs her
phone that's the valuable thing that
most people carry around now he's gonna
walk off she accepts that but our
valiant officer steps in and takes him
at gunpoint
rather than shoots him which is an
interesting choice we'll talk about it
in a little bit now he has to get him
into custody so he gets a guy on the
ground puts a knee in his back starts
putting his hands behind his back and
restraining him and now I was gonna hold
him there obviously is gonna have to put
him in cuffs thankfully no one was hurt
and this one the bad guy gets his
comeuppance and that's where this one
ends boy I bet you she was really
grateful that that guy was there
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you did that would you out of today's
video I want to think about the danger
of transitional spaces I want to think
about the value of compliance if that's
your best option and I really want to
focus on using your firearm as a
compliance tool and as a defensive tool
so let's think like we do many times
here on active self-protection about
transitional spaces this guy comes parks
here and waits now I don't generally
recommend you wait in your car ok fine
but notice here that this woman is
walking down the road and I want to say
when you are in your car when you're in
a transitional space that cars stop that
you should pay attention to your world
one of the things that I notice in this
video is that as the woman is getting
mugged it takes a guy in his car quite a
few seconds in order to respond and I
don't think it would have taken him that
long to respond had he been paying
attention to his world things might have
turned out even a little bit better he
wouldn't been able to get back on his
bike and all that so I can't tell you
enough when your car is stopped don't
just pay attention to your cell phone
pay attention to your world make sure
that you are paying attention because
attention buys you time and time buys
you options now this woman is you know
decided to comply and if you don't have
the attitude the skills the plan if
you're not a tool user yourself probably
compliance is your best bet here notice
that this guy has a gun in his hand you
can see it right here the arrow shows it
in his right hand and you can see the
fact that he is armed and has certainly
threatened her with that gun called out
to her pointed the gun at her most
likelihood and so she's decided to
comply folks compliance is an acceptable
strategy in some cases if you choose to
comply that's perfectly acceptable in my
opinion if it's the best strategy in the
moment in order to protect your life and
your health that's a complicated
calculus to do but if you do comply
recognize you put your safety in the
hands of an aggressor now she gets the
heck out of the danger zone he gets back
on the bike and notice now that our bat
our bad guy is getting out of there and
her good guy has decided to intervene
can't tell you enough I want you to
think beforehand about third party
encounters and whether you're willing to
intervene at this point she's lost her
phone but whatever and if you had chosen
not to intervene that's an acceptable
choice as well
you get to decide for yourself and your
loved ones which third party encounters
you're willing to intervene for and
which ones you're not I don't think
there's a right answer here but your own
moral code and and the laws of your
state your municipality whatever will
determine that now he gets out and we
noticed here that the bad guy actually
has hands up so our good guys pointing
the gun at him and our bad guy goes
hands up you can see him put those hands
out and so out what happens here is our
good guy actually takes him at gunpoint
rather than shoots him bad guy had put
the gun back in his waistband to get
back on his bike and utilize his
throttle and so our good guy knowing
that he is still an imminent deadly
threat cuz he's been putting a gun
around takes him at gunpoint there is a
time to point a gun at someone and not
shoot it in order to take them at
gunpoint and give commands at gunpoint
and that's true whether you're law
enforcement or a private citizen so if
the guy had gone for his gun or whatever
absolutely use it in that moment however
because he didn't so probably the best
bet here is instead to take him now of
course as a non officer we probably
wouldn't take somebody into custody like
this if you're not a sworn law
enforcement officer you're probably not
going to put somebody on the ground like
this I would recommend if you do need to
take somebody into custody then what you
do is is that you learn some techniques
in class to get them on the ground
without having to put your hands on them
because that puts your gun at risk
notice that his gun is way out in front
of him here and he could have some
problems with that don't recommend that
you do that instead maintain distance
with your distance tool get him on the
ground get his hands way away from him
and then you can disarm him when he's on
the ground and it's a much safer place
for you
now then notice the lady is coming back
at that point you've got to get this guy
disarmed before that happens if you are
this woman I would strongly recommend
you get out of the danger zone until
you're in a place where at least use the
cover and concealment until you're in a
safe place
now once you've taken this guy at
gunpoint now you got to get that gun on
it if you have to stay in the vicinity
of a deadly attacker you must get their
tool away from them I haven't seen that
in this particular instance and so this
is still a dangerous place all things
considered I'm grateful that this
off-duty officer was there I'm grateful
but this bad guy got taken into custody
I'm grateful that this woman clearly got
her phone back and that's a good thing
let's learn about transitional spaces
learn about paying attention in them
learn about the nuances of taking
somebody at gunpoint rather than
shooting them because of much less
consequences that come of
maintaining ourselves and knowing how to
take someone at gunpoint and get them
prone down on the ground and about
recovering our material to cover our ASP
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