if you're going to use a firearm for
self-defense I'm all about it but you
better know how to use it appropriately
hi everyone welcome to today's lesson
here at active Self Protection I'm your
host John Korea today's video comes to
us from Los Angeles California palm
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what I use between a harsh word and a
gun and encourage everyone to do
likewise this is obviously a home
surveillance camera and I'm not sure
what starts here we do have audio let's
listen into the encounter
hey homie
sorry
what's up man please don't shoot me I'm
sorry I'm sorry sir I'm sorry
about three [ __ ] you owe me some money
bro
I seriously can't find a new story on
this one despite all my Google Foo so
please put one in the comments if you
have it I don't know what the outcomes
were here but it's sure interesting all
right question for you out of this one
and have you taken a firearm retention
class have you ever taken any time to
think about holding on to that gun and
not getting it taken from you I like to
take those maybe not every year but
every couple years and it's a part of my
empty-handed skill training as well how
about you couple things right at the
beginning here you heard him say let me
give you some money or something like
that I don't know if there was a
personal beef here ahead of time but of
course our first thing is to be a good
sane sober moral and prudent person to
not get involved with Shady characters
and live a good quality life you know
and not get involved in crazy stuff
second part here I love the fact that he
has a surveillance system that's great
and I think it's a very useful tool for
paying attention around your home
specifically around the outside of your
home I really recommend having something
like that but recognize that is not
going to keep you safe by itself you
have to be your own self-defender and
defend yourself this you know the
surveillance system is not going to do
that for you even if it calls the cops
you are going to be the one that has to
protect yourself
third here I know some people are going
to talk about carrying a firearm in the
house that could be a very good solution
for you here but I also think that we
got to recognize not everybody's going
to do that and biding your time is going
to be an issue so you know making sure
that your your home that is safe from
this kind of invasion I think is a good
deal and you notice this guy here comes
in gun up and and this is clearly I
think not just a random home invasion
this this feels and seems personal to me
so make sure that a you know that your
your perimeter is secure that I you know
I get it some people sit around the
front of their house and sit out on
their front porch you'd probably be able
to see that in this case but but being
able to be snuck up on like this in your
own home that's pretty difficult so this
is why when people are in my home I
always make sure my exterior doors are
locked so when there's not people in the
home don't worry about it quite as much
but when there are we do now next thing
here he's practiced the 5Ds plus one and
that's what he's doing here in some
respects right so clearly he's closed
the distance we've talked about the five
these plus one plus one is distant then
deflect dominate distract disarm and
disable
now here's the thing he has closed the
distance for sure so there goes the plus
one next he has deflected the gun away
from him here and and now he's
dominating two hands on one and
generally speaking the person with the
shorter arms is gonna win now where his
struggle is here is he is not
distracting now I will say that what the
distraction allows us to do is overcome
a strength disadvantage and the fact
that he's holding on to the gun on the
holdiani part but it can work without it
if you are bigger and stronger and have
good technique and that's exactly what
he has here is he basically just muscles
this gun out of his hands now I'm gonna
suggest that for the most part the
people that go attacking good people are
going to be bigger and stronger than
them so you can't count on this we see
it fail an awful lot if you don't add
the distract okay and and how do you
distract people you end up you know
usually inflicting pain and injury on
them so so you go to work on other parts
of them gets them thinking about not the
gun and that allows you to get the gun
out of their hand but if you are you
know much bigger than them and stronger
than them okay you can do all right as
well now he gets the gun away from the
guy and you see him here ends up taking
a shot at the guy I don't have any
problems with that whatsoever I do want
you to recognize that eventually at some
point you know he's not a deadly threat
anymore I think right now immediately in
the aftermath of a disarm he is so I
don't think he'd have any problems with
it legally certainly not morally but at
some point this guy you know if he backs
away from you or whatever turns around
and runs off isn't a deadly threat to
you anymore and So eventually you gotta
stop but here in the moment no problem
with using a gun whatsoever because of
the totality of the circumstances and I
think that that it's probably the right
thing to do it's not just can I shoot
him here I probably should shoot him
here because he's just been threatening
me with deadly harm and and still is
that harm and still within Arm's Reach
and we are still not done you know
fighting over the gun in that particular
case so I don't have any problems using
it make sure you know how to use it
effectively I think that that here kind
of the hip shoot is not my favorite
technique I'd rather him have two hands
on the gun from a compressed position so
that it's much harder for the gun to get
taken away from him it's a weird home
invasion but there are some good lessons
here for us to better cover our asp