if someone takes what they're
threatening you with and puts it away
are they still a deadly threat let's
talk about it
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guy walks up to the counter of this cell
phone store just pretending that he's a
customer or whatever until he brandishes
a knife and looks like it was of like a
folding knife or something tells the
employee that he wants the money out of
the registers looks like she was already
maybe packaging some out of one
registered put in the safe or something
and so he's he's very calm and so is she
and so she is going to get the money out
of that register and very kind of
casually and slowly you can see him he
puts the knife away there and then puts
the money in the envelope and then she's
going to hand him some more and so he's
kind of got his hand in his pocket I
think like there is more to the knife
and he's going to grab some more of the
money there and then put it in the
envelope and so you know I think he's
kind of counting his payday here and
taking his time and she just kind of
stands there and waits for him then
she's gonna back off a little bit and
he's going to think about kind of
walking her way a little bit she gets
kind of down on the ground and he
decides well that's about as much money
as I'm gonna get and he is then going to
walk off thankfully he did not hurt her
and police are still looking for him all
right when's the last time that you
checked your draw two first hit time I
do it regularly we teach it all the time
over on active self-protection extra so
go over there links in the description
to get some tips on how to get faster so
that you've got better counter Ambush
opportunities well thinking about the
way that this one goes you got to ask
the question well okay wait a minute is
somebody with a knife a deadly threat
the answer to that is an easy yes we
always ask a question do they have the
ability the opportunity and have they
put you in Jeopardy of deadly harm and
we see that does he have the ability to
do your deadly harm yes a knife can do
me deadly harm does he have the
opportunity yes he can deliver that
knife so in other words it is capable of
being used right now or he can get to me
right now and then Jeopardy means does
he have the Manifest intent to do me
that deadly harm in him pointing the
knife at me and threatening me with it
says that he does so can deadly force be
used to stop this threat absolutely and
it doesn't matter what kind of deadly
force at least in the United States now
okay so she's going to comply for the
moment let's think about counter Ambush
opportunities because she's got one
right here I mean if she has a 1.5
second draw to first shot the guy's not
looking at her he's kind of looking way
away he can barely see her so remember
our timing factors right at counter
ambush in an armed robbery if you have a
two second draw the first shot he has to
show you his shoulder the back of his
head either one of those two the
shoulder or the back of the head then
you can outdraw him and he can't get
back to you and of course with a knife
he'd have to close the distance too if
you have a 1.5 second draw the first
shot if he shows you his ear like this
purpose done to the lady that's there if
he turns his nose away from you and
looks off you you got to have a 1.0 draw
the first shot so in this case a 1.5
would do it just fine now look what
happens here so she's going to comply
and look for other opportunities now
again just because you are armed doesn't
mean you have to counter Ambush but if
you aren't armed you can't so there's
that part right now I do want to notice
here that he's put the knife away so is
he still a deadly threat the answer to
that is yes he still has the ability he
still has the opportunity because it's
readily available in his pocket and
because he's shown the Manifest intent
to do you deadly harm he is still a
deadly threat so so because the other
two because those have already been
there and are known there him simply
putting it away in his pocket does not
abrogate that you can absolutely again
another 1.5 here and there's nothing he
is going to do in order to stop you from
counter ambushing there which is why I
think every good Saint sober moral
imprudent person should be armed because
again stopping this deadly threat is a
moral goodness 100 you're right but also
was a moral good to keep this from
happening to stop this threat that kept
going for some significant time now I do
want to notice here uh you know people
go well you know she wasn't in a good
spot whatever looking at the position
that our clerk is in here
this is like classic shooter ready stand
by I will say I've never seen somebody
actually start a draw from hands down
like this but this is probably as good a
shooter ready standby position as exists
he's looking down looking away again
shoot already standby beep and she's got
the beep there and there's nothing this
guy is going to do to stop that now she
chooses not to and she chooses instead
to get kind of down on the ground I
don't like that I generally don't
recommend getting put on the ground or
taken to a second location because of
the bad things that are happening but
the one thing that she did do well here
is she complied fully so either comply
fully or resist fully I and and one or
the other can work only you know about
25 percent of the time we see fully
compliant victims injured in armed
robberies so that does give you about a
75 chance of not if you fully comply so
it is a viable strategy now again if
somebody draws a firearm to defend
themselves in an armed robbery and uses
that firearm their chances of being
injured go down to about six percent
statistically so I find that to be that
gain in safety is definitely worth
considering and being ready for so I
think that that's morally good it worked
out for her in the end but let's learn
the lessons so that we can cover our