even when you're paying attention
sometimes it takes a little bit of luck
to win welcome to today's active
self-protection lesson I'm your host
John Correa today's video comes to us
from sao paulo in brazil after thorough
testing i recently changed my everyday
OC spray to pommes personal defense
spray it's nasty stuff and i recommend
it highly the woman getting out of the
car is here for a doctor's appointment
has just come from a shopping trip this
isn't a very nice area of South paulo
and has a security guard who was
actually helping her out of the car you
could see him like you know looking
around seeing what's going on in the
world apparently he is attached to the
building to the medical office he it
tells you something about sao paulo that
they have armed security outside of a
medical office this guy comes up with a
you know a motorcycle and he is
disguised as a delivery guy and actually
what you're going to see is our delivery
guy draws a gun to rob that woman and
the security guard shoots him twice
that guy just off-screen a little ways
down the street there took the asphalt
temperature challenge and the guard ran
off to go check on the patron no one
else was harmed in this and they're they
don't know what the motive was my guess
would be robbery but they couldn't find
a motive because the guy did not make it
to tell him what the motive was let's
watch it one more time here as we see
our intended victim being protected by
security who she didn't pay for again
that was from the venue but he keeps
himself between them and now we're gonna
see the guy draw a firearm and actually
if you go read the news story the bad
guys gun malfunction so we actually
pulled the trigger there the gun did not
fire the good guy was able to hit him
with two rounds and his gun did fire and
that was what carried the day and that
is where this one ends man crazy to
think that it was a malfunction that
saved the day for this woman aunt for
the security guard got a question for
you out of it though hit me an answer in
the comments when's the last time you if
you're a firearms carrier changed out
your defensive ammo and how often do you
change out your defensive ammo I change
mine out about every six months I carry
really reliable stuff I'm not worried
that it's gonna go bad but I figured
just running through it doesn't cost me
much and it's cheap insurance how about
you let's think about some other lessons
out of this one so most of us don't have
professional security it will be
to us to pay attention to our world so
let's you know to think about these
lessons from the perspective of those of
us who don't have professional security
but this security guy is a pro you
notice he's not paying attention to the
woman in the car he's opened the door
for her and then he is looking out at
his world so you recognize when you're
getting out of a car it's a transitional
space and the danger comes from outside
the car so pay attention outside the car
that doesn't mean you're paranoid it
means you're paying attention to your
world and the security guard is doing an
excellent job of that again the we most
of us don't have paid security we have
to do that job ourselves we are our own
security so we're responsible to do that
this woman has that though so she
doesn't have to worry about it great
she's able to get inside the car do
everything that she needs to and that's
fine
notice how how well though he is keeping
abreast of what's going on in his world
he's not sucked in to what's going on
and now he sees what's going on with
this guy and he does an excellent job
here of putting himself between a
potential threat that he doesn't know as
a threat yet and a potential victim now
again if you are a self defender here
rather than paid security I think this
is an excellent reminder to those of us
with non defending loved ones those of
us who have non-self defenders as family
members be that a spouse or children or
parents loved ones co-workers buddies
whatever you have to recognize where
that threat may come from and put
yourself in an advantageous position if
you're creeped alarm goes off now notice
here that what's going to happen is this
guy is gonna then get out and draw a
firearm and so as a self defender you
are always on the defensive now
recognize as well that his intended
victim is right behind you well that
makes you the shield that makes you the
cover which is okay and fine but you've
got to recognize you need to get your
gun out in a hurry now we do know that
it's the bad guy who did try to get a
shot off
but it's not going to go so this is one
of the reasons that I say when you
recognize a threat you need to have the
ability to get your firearm out fast
reliably in the fight and get a hit this
is the most critical skill to winning a
defensive gunfight and notice here look
at how close they are there within a
step of each other and yet they both
draw their firearms together and get
after it the right answer here might
have been to go with hands instead get
your hand on that gun earn positional
dominance but what I see here all the
time the realities of defensive
gunfights is that people will get the
gun out instead now I think what
happened right here is the bad guy
gun was malfunctioning right here I
don't know what kind of gun he had I
seen a couple of you know people
positing that he had a 38 special
revolver I'm not sure but the good guy
here apparently had a 380 caliber little
semi-auto gets his gun out and in the
fight and gets a shot on the guy quickly
now the faster you can do that the
better off you're gonna be I also
stopped it here so that you recognize
you can see the gun in the left hand of
the bad guy you can see him here that
that gun is up and it's the first person
who puts a shot in an anatomically
significant target that gets the win and
so putting a shot in the meaty bits of
the other guy fast in first is the
primal skill is the number one skill in
winning a gunfight thankfully the bad
guys gun malfunctioned here which gave
the good guys some more time he had
about a 1.9 draw to first shot which
again the faster you are the better you
are now notice here that our good guy as
he made a couple of shots don't know if
that guy's gun was gonna come back so as
he shot he moved to his right which he's
right-handed so moving to his right as
his strong side and moved towards a
place where he had a little bit of
concealment behind the car most of a
car's concealment not cover so I think
that's a very good strategy as well as
your as you're getting good shots
on-target notice he wasn't running hard
but he was strafing to get over there so
that he could put shots on target while
minimizing his target zones himself that
was a really good thing gets to see the
guy run off and as soon as he does he
takes appropriate follow-up actions so
once that threat initially goes off you
got to do that notice as well as soon as
the gunshot started happening the
distances opened up very very quickly
when the fight started at very very
close distance so we got to have some
some lessons out of this one paying
attention getting our gun out and in the
fight very very quickly recognizing how
that's going to affect the
non-combatants in our world getting good
anatomical hits first and fast being
fast to that shot being able to move
while we're shooting and taking
appropriate follow-up actions all
excellent skills this security guard did
a bang-up job of covering his ass