there's no obligation for any private
citizen to get involved in a third party
encounter but sometimes when you do you
can have a major influence
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wholeheartedly what we see here is this
car is going to get carjacked that is an
uber driver who is waiting for a ride
this is a taxi driver who was just
pulling up and is unrelated to that uber
driver but now watch when he pulls up
you're gonna see a bunch of guys trying
to carjack this uber driver who is then
when once they throw rocks at him and
stuff he's gonna try to get out of there
and actually bumps the taxi and so watch
what happens now as they are getting
into this uber driver's car and getting
into his trunk and all and stuff the
taxi driver gets out thinking it's just
a car wreck to see what's happening sees
the guy's pointing guns at him gets his
own legally owned firearm out and starts
shooting at these guys and gets them all
to run off so what i have the the news
stories are a little conflicting but it
sounds like he got one of them in the
leg he got another one in the hand and
that the passenger of the uber so that
the driver of the uber actually was
injured or shot as well in the leg and i
don't know if he shot him or if one of
the bad guys did with his gun at any
rate they ran off everybody else lived
and we get to think about lessons i
think he did a pretty darn good job does
lead me to a question and i want to know
from you would you have gotten involved
in this incident or just kept on going
because it's not your circus and not
your monkeys let me know in the comments
so of course note that a parked vehicle
is a transitional space we see this all
the time you see our bad guys start this
attack from an element of surprise and
of course they do that when the vehicle
is stopped a moving vehicle is
absolutely not a transitional space but
especially in an area where there are
people around this is a place where bad
guys can attack with an element of
surprise there's valuables that are
present and they can get away quickly
and that is definitionally what we call
a transitional space and therefore that
this is this is where the attacks happen
and as the defender you are going to be
in an initiative deficit so you're going
to be responding here that's why you're
on defense not on offense and that's how
this works so you notice they're going
to get in and the guy's going to bump
his car into uh the the uh
taxi here now of course taxi driver
doesn't think that this is an attack
right now
i do want to note as well from the the
uh uber driver's perspective that there
are times where you can't drive off we
say all the time that your car is your
best bet almost always but this is a
case where it may not be because again
he's very much boxed in although if he's
really thinking he might have been able
to reverse out of there very well that's
a lot of driving skill so again you
might have to stand and fight in that
case which is why the uber driver should
have been armed himself to be able to
start dealing with this now of course
our taxi driver is just thinking man
i've had a car wreck happens to all of
us no big deal okay let's just go make
sure everybody's okay and now he sees
the fact that it's actually a carjacking
going on you could see him going for his
firearm let's talk very briefly that
every person gets to decide what third
party encounters they are going to step
in that ones that they don't involve
them personally the attacker is not
interested in them you get to decide
which ones you're willing to intervene
in and which ones you're not some people
may say i'm not willing to intervene for
anybody who's not my immediate loved one
other people say no i will help anybody
who needs help because i hate it when
the victims are preyed on by oppressors
and i think both of those are valid
think about it in advance now he decides
to get his gun out here and i want you
to pay attention and watch what happens
here as he is strafing to his left he's
moving here he's moving at a very
measured pace getting off the x so that
he can hopefully get shots on these guys
he does get shots on two of them i think
the two of them that are right in front
of him here
and i want to notice a couple things
about that did you notice that he
actually crossed his feet while he did
that and i know in a lot of places they
say oh this is really bad and you don't
want to do that the reality is when
you're in an open environment like this
when you need to move fairly quickly but
not so much that you're going to turn
your hips crossing your feet like this
is just how you are going to move number
two
one of the things that you want to
notice here is he is moving and staying
it's where he's not a stationary target
but he's moving in such a way that you
can see he can still see his sights and
his upper body is staying oriented on
the threat that's in front of him this
is a good way to move now this isn't
something you're going to learn in your
first handgun class your second or your
third but as you get into the high
intermediate level of handgunning you
definitely should be moving while you're
shooting and still hitting targets and
even if you can obviously making sure
that you're hitting moving targets as
well he did an okay job of that here
although you notice every time he shoots
he brings the gun down out of his eye
level that's something we want to avoid
for sure now last thing here you notice
how kind of lackadaisical is these guys
are still running off and he's really
kind of moseying about and taking his
time please remember to follow that tap
ifs follow follow-up acronym right
t-a-p-i-f-f-s so that is is the threat
down so t is a threat do i need to shoot
him again is he out of the fight
then a accomplices does he have any
accomplices do i need to deal with them
do i need to shoot anybody else p check
my partners and your partner or partners
are they okay right so that's the tap
version now i am i injured is somebody
else injured do we need to do something
about that f check the condition of my
firearm is it still in a running order
if i have a spare magazine do i want to
top it off then f take appropriate
follow-up actions to make us safer get
out of the area get to cover lock the
door something like that and then s seek
help call it in and go get somebody else
there to help you to deal with whatever
problems are left so we follow that tap
ifs follow-up and and if you really
internalize that it will help you think
about in after that moment where am i in
the process here what do i need to do
immediately rather than kind of
wandering around in an adrenalized state
after a gunfight so i think that this
taxi driver did a pretty darn good job i
think that he helped this uber driver
not to get carjacked i think he covered
his asp
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