Doing something to protect yourself is better than doing nothing
Welcome to today's active self-protection lesson. I'm your host John Correa
Today's video is actually two separate incidents one out of Las Vegas
Nevada and one out of South Carolina both in the United States
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All right, first one out of Vegas this guy is just kind of moseying into his house 1:30 in the morning
You can see that they're a little cool in the desert in December
so he's got a beanie on he looks up and dude is pointing a gun at him and demanding his wallet guys actually gonna
Swat the gun away which makes the bad guy try to chamber it and he's just gonna walk off and ignore the dude
Now this next one again
If you're watching it
This guy I think is an uber driver and you're gonna see him just kind of mosey through is just getting from A to B
when all of a sudden is gonna come around the corner and come upon some crazy or actually have a little bit of audio to
Hear on this one. Let's hear how the encounter goes
Well, that's scary
He just decides at this point to start bumping him with the bumper and guys not having to trying to push his car back
But eventually dudes gonna figure out that's the wrong way to go
Our victim is going to floor it and get the heck out of the danger zone. And that is where this one ends. I
Guess at the end of things they both worked
But we got to think about some lessons here
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I want to think about getting out of the danger zone when that's possible. I also want to think about
emotional fitness and staying present in the moment and then I want to think about
Sub-optimal actions versus taking the best choice to protect yourself in the moment. So guys coming home late at night
Whatever paying attention is a critical skill attention buys you time
Time buys you options and we see him looking up here but doing something about it incredibly critical. So the guy
Popped up and guy is certainly pointing a gun at him at this point before we can see him on camera
What are you going to do at this point?
well guys
You got to recognize that paying attention earlier might have prevented this all the way through but sometimes these things are unavoidable
So you got to have a plan in place in order to act now
Our guy here doesn't look like much of a self defender
but dudes gonna come up and put a gun in his face and he's just gonna kind of
Swat at that gun with his hand that is a sub optimal plan friends
If you're gonna go with the guy if you're gonna try to resist him don't play pattycake
the only reason this guy didn't get shot is because this guy's not a murderer if you're gonna try to
Keep that muzzle off of you. It's time for the five DS plus one
It's time to control distance and then deflect dominate distract disarmed and disable
It's not time to pull out the gun because you're trying to see oh is this guy really for real?
Thankfully in this instance he wasn't but if he was you would have had nothing but a bullet hole in you to show for it
So go for it if you can now notice how fast our bad guy is able to get his gun back on target
This is why I say don't just pop guns because it's just distracting him for just a second
It might buy you a half second, but probably no more than that
Which is why it is a terrible idea. Now if you're gonna defend yourself just go and now this guy decides instead
He's just gonna kind of mosey out of the danger zone
And again, the only thing that kept him from being hurt here is that this guy's not a killer now
Thankfully that makes him just a resource predator
He's trying to get the guy's money or whatever and that's all well and good
But I would never trust my safety to the hands of a violent felon, somebody's willing to point a gun at you now
I might bet that that gun probably wasn't real certainly wasn't loaded at that point
That's all well and good, but you can't tell those things in the moment
So if you're going to be a self defender be an a competent self defender not a lucky one
But sometimes looks enough now our other one that's a driving situation here. Okay, fine dudes out late at night again
He's ubering whatever is you know, he's a professional driver here
That's great
But be aware of what's coming in your world and take appropriate follow up actions now
Dude's going to come across some crazy and you can't always
Prevent that this dude here all of a sudden now if we remember the original he honks his horn at the guy
This was a punitive action. Again. Your horn is designed to be protective
Let other people know where you're at
Not designed to be punitive and tell other people that they're stupid and that's how used it here
And I don't recommend that no reason I don't recommend it is that it inflames problems?
It causes road rage it gets guys angry far better here hit the brakes. Put it in Reverse
Get some space between you and this guy instead of letting him bang on your hood and making things worse use your vehicle
You've got this vehicle
Which is the best?
Self-defense tool that you probably have in your arsenal and instead of letting that guy bang on your hood get the heck out of there
Now instead our good guy decides to go forward on him
This is dangerous because that guy loses his footing goes under your wheels
And now you're got all kinds of problems with the law
Now you've got all kinds of stuff now you might be able to defend it
You might be able to say hey, this guy scared me. I was just trying to get out of the way. I went slow
whatever
But you're still gonna have to explain all that and pay a lawyer
Hundreds of dollars an hour to try to concoct a story and to help you tell that story to the district attorney to not get
Charged and to the jury so far better to put that vehicle in reverse and get the heck out of there that way of course
We can't see behind him. So he might have had somebody behind him
I don't think so on these deserted roads, though
But I do commend him for at least
Giving the guy some opportunity and not flooring it and running him over but kind of push and push and pushing until the guy
Got off to the side enough and then as soon as it was safe, he hit the gas and used his vehicle effectively
so let's think about
Sub-optimal, you know it answers here and try for optimal answers
Let's think about making sure that we recognize that the danger of the rules of stupid particularly being late at night
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