today we get a two pack of lessons about
paying attention for your turn
hi everyone welcome to today's lesson
here at active Self Protection I'm your
host John Korea today we do have two
lessons both out of Houston Texas Palm
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what I use between a harsh word and a
gun and encourage everyone to do
likewise first one here it's just after
midnight this dude's just kind of
hanging around at a gas station at
midnight and when he sees a lady who is
sitting in her car after gassing up and
just sitting there he is going to walk
over to her car and point a handgun at
her and demand that she get out of her
car and she is going to do that gets the
door open and she is gonna walk off now
notice her I think it's the guy that was
in the car with her is going to then
come up and get a hold of the little
station for paper towels and stuff like
that and then kind of start pushing it
towards the car like spilling out
windshield cleaner stuff and then push
it at him a little while before he
drives off I'm not sure exactly what he
was doing doing that and we'll talk
about that in the lessons in our second
one armed robbery here these couple guys
come in and pull handguns and as they do
they kind of I think maybe even brought
in or grabbed that monitor and now
they're gonna start robbing everyone you
can see there's one guy on the floor
here see the second guy is just kind of
in the foreground standing around while
our bad guys have two full-size handguns
and they're pointing them around at
everyone
and then they're gonna steal all the
cash out of the registers and then this
guy here is grabbing guns as well and
you're gonna see that in just a second
uh as we see him kind of headed off but
now look over in the top right you could
see what he's grabbing there is he is
grabbing pistols out of there pistol
rack he stole a whole bunch of guns and
all the cash out of the cash registers
and these guys run off as well
thankfully no one was harmed in either
I'm gonna continue to say it Houston
what the heck is wrong with you you're
in Texas for God's sake you have
constitutional carry for God's sake why
are more people not carrying goods sane
sober moral people carrying there of
course when you see somebody doing
something you would not expect someone
to be doing at a gas station pay
attention this guy is just Dilly
dallying and hanging around at a gas
station at midnight that's a bad deal
second thing here don't sit at a gas
pump for golly sakes friends you've got
to just recognize that gas stations or
transitional spaces you play Four
Corners we did a short on that on the
Instagram go find it there in terms of
of making sure that you're paying
attention in these environments and then
you just don't sit here on your phone
now I get it it looks to me like her
significant other is inside the store or
something like that what I would
recommend in that case is lock your
doors and go inside lock your doors and
go find them so that you're not sitting
out here in this transitional space now
of course she's not going to have a
whole lot of options here when he tries
to bang open her door and gets the door
open of course please hear me lock your
stinking doors never ever ever leave the
doors of your car unlocked when you are
inside the vehicle secondarily again the
order when we get in a vehicle is we get
in we lock the doors we start the engine
we put the vehicle in drive or reverse
whichever one makes sense
then do anything else that we need to do
to get ready to go in the vehicle and
then go and that is what gives us the
space to do that so the car should be
running and in gear if you are in it if
not it is a a Sitting Duck like this on
a very regular basis now what is this
guy doing with the the uh you know
little towel dispenser and and
windshield washer thing I have no idea I
don't know if he's trying to use that
for cover and like try to get the guy to
give up by he's not going to have a
place to drive off or something I don't
know but this just does not seem to be a
very useful strategy to me I I mean I
get adapting and overcoming and using
whatever is in your environment and I
think all that has a place and is viable
and valuable but this just feels stupid
to me quite frankly and yes should you
have your own firearm on your person
absolutely uh you know should you
protect life with that firearm yes
should you use environmental weapons if
you have to absolutely I just don't know
what he was thinking here I don't think
it had really any place or any kind of
you know good outcomes that are going to
come out of this and again I you know
apparently they found that car like a
month later
now when these guys come in and they're
drawing guns I I will say even as they
draw the guns again I'm going to say
this on the channel I believe now at the
end of 2022 that somebody walking in
especially with a hoodie up with a mask
on their face is something to pay
attention to it doesn't mean because
they're wearing a mask that they are
evil I do know some people who have
chosen to continue masking in public
places but they're very rare these days
and they almost never covered their head
as well as wear a mask so a hoodie on
and a mask on is absolutely a red flag a
mask on it all you know in an otherwise
healthy looking adult is probably one as
well now let's look for our counter
Ambush opportunities here is that you
notice here the guy in the green shirt
in the front notice that our perps are
not paying attention to him at all right
now now they do have full-size handguns
on so that's a big deal but if you
notice he hasn't turned away completely
so if you're going to launch your
counter Ambush at this point you better
have a 1.0 second drawing for a shot on
the regular and that's an expert
standard that not too many can do on
demand so this would not be a great spot
for most people but would be the first
opportunity if you had an expert's level
of command next one here you see them
looking away and now these guys have not
only stacked up they're looking
completely away they've showed you their
ears so now the guy who was in the white
shirt if you have a 1.5 second draw the
first shot there's nothing he can do to
beat you the guy in the black hoodie he
has shown you his shoulder and the side
of his head which means a two second
draw and first shot will beat him as
well so even better in that they've
stacked each other for the guy that's on
the right now I don't know if he has a
firearm on him and I'm saying not saying
that if you're involved in someone
else's Armed robber you have to draw a
firearm but these are the ghost signals
if you want to counter Ambush here he
has turned his back completely so now
really a two and a half second draw to
first shot will do just fine here and he
can't beat you back but eventually he
will come back to be seen and see what's
going on here so again know your counter
Ambush visual cues if you are a
concealed carrier so that you know how
if you know how fast you are and the
only way to know that is to know it on a
timer is to go and do this stuff now I
do want to note here as well that this
guy is starting to steal guns and so
he's stuffing everything inside of the
bag well that changes your timing needs
as well because he doesn't have his
handgun in his hand it's actually you
can kind of see it tucked in the crook
of his elbow there that makes this an
excellent time for a counter Ambush
should you choose to do that again I
can't see where the employees are where
he is where his partner is what the
actual threats are from that but I do
want us to pay attention in the midst of
an armed robbery because as a good Saint
sober moral prudent person you may very
well find a time to stop that armed
robbery to end the threat much more
quickly to you and yours without it
continuing to be a deadly threat to you
and yours and I think that that's a
moral good in this case okay there's
still a bunch of stuff but recognize now
not stopping this these felons got away
with a whole bunch of guns as well as
the money and that is going to lead to
furtherance of crimes which is another
reason that I think it is moral and good
to stop this kind of thing so pay
attention in your world carry your
firearm do the smart things know what
your ghost signals are in a counter
Ambush to cover your asp