do not mess with the babushka with a
shotgun
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know me john korea i'm the host here
but with me today is stephanie weidner
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evidence-based defensive trainer
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description this is one of the weirder
armed robberies i've ever seen as this
dude comes in with a pistol grip shotgun
threatening everybody in this jewelry
store
when what you're gonna see here off to
the right is babushka show
up with her shotgun and be like i got
one of those too and when she does
or her husband has a pistol you can just
see it off to the right there and shoots
this dude in the leg
well she goes out to get the accomplice
and they got the accomplice too
apparently but now you see the guy tap
out because he's been
shot in the leg i'm gonna guess he
didn't shoot him in the leg on purpose
but now our proprietor kicks the guy's
shotgun out of the way and is gonna hold
him there while the guy regrets his life
choices
we get to learn lessons today i gotta
admit i chuckled
at that one a lot it was pretty good
it's pretty good
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so this one gets going when the video
starts with this guy with a shotgun
over the counter threatening employees
who are trying to get down
okay fine recognize i i think we see
this all the time on the channel
that you are operating at an initiative
deficit when you're operating against an
armed robber and if you're the clerk
here on camera you may not have an
opportunity
in this moment you may just have to
comply with him right and we can also
see here that this guy's finger is
on the trigger as he is pointing it and
being really aggressive with his body
language and
everything that he's doing right now so
even if he's not intending to shoot you
i mean his fingers on the trigger
something had startled him you could get
shot anyway so
yeah you cannot expect that the bad guys
will have good gun safety
and again this is one of the reasons
that we say having attitude skills and
plan having
your tools on your person available to
you is so important
because otherwise you're putting your
safety in the hands of a guy who is
willing to shoot you
over a few dollars and and has zero care
for your well-being which is why we say
hey listen you've got to be a and the
threat
because nobody's coming to save you and
thank god these people did have firearms
with them now as this one continues you
see him here
and he's pointing at shotgun and folks
and yelling at him and i will say that
babushka here is pretty lucky she didn't
get shot
she really is i mean the gun's pointed
at her right as she walks out now she
does come out with with quite a bit of
presence and
um she's she's not timid but she you
know he like you say she could have
easily been shot yeah so so this is why
we say the presence of a firearm can
really make a difference
because he's paying attention i think
he's just shocked at the fact that wait
a minute
this is an elderly woman who's got a
shotgun as well okay we're having
shotgun show-and-tell right now
and he's so you know like shocked by
that that he actually puts his gun down
and she brings her gun into the play but
but i do think there was a good bit of
luck here and
i do say all the time man you can't
count on luck but luck does count
absolutely and as the gun with the gun
going down or even
actually before she came on screen back
in the hallway if she had been able to
fire around
then could have changed things much
sooner because right now
her husband's on the other side of her
with a gun and now we have to have a
gunfight with her kind of in the middle
of all of it
yeah and you can see that gun in the
lower right hand corner where he make
gets a shot off here and that puts him
down now i will say this
i don't think necessarily that he was
trying to shoot him in the leg here okay
and leg shots what we see on the channel
can be just as fatal as
a center mast shot not generally as
effective at stopping although in this
particular instance it worked it put him
down
i don't think that he tried to shoot him
in the leg my guess is that he actually
pulled that shot low
but sometimes the leg shot's effective
yeah i would say almost certainly he
missed
the chest that he was aiming at but in
this case that was enough
and uh he's going to tap out here and
then i'm done i don't want to play
anymore i think this is hilarious so we
always talk about this we say wait a
minute you know you can't tap out on the
street
actually believe it or not you can tap
out this guy tapped out he said okay i
don't want to fight anymore
that hurts and and that was a submission
right it was no it's done so so
sometimes we hear about oh okay there's
no tapping out on the streets
and actually i don't think that's true i
think the reality is is that when the
bad guy stops fighting
that is what we generally call a tap out
right and when he stops fighting okay we
stop shooting and that's not plain and
simple and i think this guy did
a fine job now again did he mean to no
do i wish that he had a higher level of
skill so he put the shot where he wanted
to yeah absolutely because it probably
would have put the guy down
because this is a psychological stop
he's still able to shoot
so able with that shotgun he's just
unwilling to okay fine
i do think on the follow up here our
owner did a fine job of getting the
shotgun away from him
keeping a little bit of distance from
the guy and keeping him covered so kudos
to him for doing that
now again grandma goes out to go get
this other guy outside i
generally don't recommend that yeah and
we were thinking why didn't she just
kind of stay back
why did she enter this gunfight and i am
guessing they had a plan already in
place that if someone came in to rob the
place
that she was to get out and i don't
necessarily think that's a bad plan if
he wasn't able to stop him
the idea that she was willing to do
something in this case get out
was probably certainly better than just
hoping for the best in the back room
it would have been nice if she had been
able to engage from the back room but so
i'm guessing that's what she did but
yeah generally we don't want you
following people out into the parking
lot and there were other bad guys in
this scenario any one of them could have
got her out there too
yeah and that's where the big concern is
so i think they did a great job here i
think that they handled the threat just
fine
i think that the mere presence of an
elderly woman with a shotgun like just
completely zapped this guy's brain to
the point
that that he couldn't fight anymore i
think that the shot in his leg did an
effective job i'm not gonna say shooting
somebody in the leg doesn't work
because sometimes it will but it doesn't
take him out of the fight other than if
he chooses to stop fighting
which is why we don't recommend it and a
psychological stop
is a stop and it's a win so take that
win consolidate your victory
consolidate your dominance of the space
rather than go outside but babushka you
covered your asp