if you're a good sane sober moral person
your self-defense
must be proportional in duration and
intensity
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thank you for joining us for today's
lesson here at active self protection
i'm your host
john korea an evidence-based defensive
trainer out of phoenix arizona
today's video comes to us from miami
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the guy sitting on the far left eating
his nachos or whatever
is just sitting there eating his nachos
the guy sitting on the right side
is a grub hub delivery guy who is
waiting for an
order to be prepared and uh they don't
know each other have never interacted
whatsoever and what you see now is our
dude who's eating i think is gonna
frustrate this guy
who's looking at him and kind of giving
him the stink eye and our dude who's
eating is like what man you got a
problem as he licks his fingers
dude is gonna get up they have not
spoken he has not said
a word and he's gonna get up and start
swinging punches
the the other guy six or seven times and
what happens dude gets away from him and
draws his concealed carry firearm and
our perp then runs off
and our firearms carrier then as he's
runs off into the street shoots him four
times in the right leg
and our dude is gonna drop in the street
there our carrier is gonna actually go
back inside wait for the cops
and they're going to charge him with
aggravated
battery with a firearm and that is some
pretty serious charges
the initial aggressor was not charged
and it will make a full recovery but he
did spend some significant time in the
hospital and that's where this one ends
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self-defender so first things first i
think if you're a
self-defender if you're a concealed
carrier a lawful concealed carrier
that you need to live a life of
de-escalation escape and avoidance you
need to recognize
that you need to de-escalate fights
whenever you possibly can
and i think this guy was probably a
lawful concealed carrier because
he wasn't charged with you know carrying
a concealed firearm without a permit so
my guess is he has a permit
has his gun on him um and is just living
his life but you got to recognize now
then
if you know when somebody comes up to
you you got to de-escalate that conflict
to the biggest extent possible
because you don't want this kind of
stuff to happen to you all right let's
think about the action here as it gets
going
is that notice these guys are then
looking at each other whatever now i'm
going to speculate a little bit here
and i want you to understand that it is
speculation but my speculation because i
didn't say anything to each other
is that the grubhub delivery guy is
angry because of the eating noises of
the other guy
it's an actual thing called misophonia
that some people get irrationally angry
about some sounds and the sound depends
on the person
and i don't know what that is and i'm
not telling you you have to eat silently
all the time
but recognize that this kind of
eyeballing each other back and forth is
a great time to de-escalate hey man
you're doing okay is it you know
something do i know you have we met or
something like that
to again to start to de-escalate the
conflict now then our dude instead is
going to get
up and now we start to see there is a
problem coming and our concealed carrier
needs to recognize that yes he's closing
his food
but look at the body language of our
aggressor here his chin is jutted out
his his elbows are away from his body
his hands are being balled up into fists
you've got to recognize those
pre-assault indicators that he is moving
forward
and take steps to protect yourself that
might be standing up
that might be getting your hands up and
in front of you or something like that
just to
at least keep this guy off you because
if you don't what's gonna happen is
he is gonna sneak inside your
reactionary gap and that's exactly what
we see here as he sneaks inside his
reactionary gap and in a quarter second
he punches him from the time that his
hands first start moving and there's
literally
nothing you're gonna do to stop that
punch if you don't keep him
out of your reactionary gap it's at
three to six foot distance
that that .25.5 seconds makes a huge
difference now he's going to punch him a
whole bunch
and now it's going to go into a grapple
fight and notice here our concealed
carrier's gun is on his hip
now this is a reason that honestly i
prefer appendix carry
i know it's not for everyone but when
you have a gun carried on your hip
particularly
behind the hip and you're in any kind of
grappling fight number one that makes it
visible to the bad guy number two makes
it very difficult for you to get
because your hands are in front of you
defending yourself far better if that
gun is in front of you on the waist
for a defensive use and in particular
here
for the grappling fight also notice a
standing grappling fight these do happen
having an empty-handed skill set for a
firearms carrier incredibly important
because he couldn't draw the gun here if
he wanted to
and again you're gonna ask the question
okay wait a minute is it okay for him to
draw the gun well
i think two things number one he got
some distance so he got positional
dominance by getting distance
that's when you draw a firearm in a
grappling contest in an entangled fight
is when you have positional dominance he
does here
is he justified to draw his firearm here
i think he is i think that again this is
a big
strong guy who has been assaulting him a
bunch and and again
in florida in particular you know you
can't uh display a firearm in an
aggressive or reckless manner
but you can defensively display a
firearm so probably okay here again
thinking man that guy's gonna put me in
the hospital or whatever
but then what happens is things change
here in a hurry notice here
that our defensive use of a firearm is a
moment by moment thing so
to get the gun out in hand i'm totally
fine with that but notice here that our
bad guy is fleeing and once he starts
fleeing we got issues now if he had shot
him kind of right here and you go oh i
don't know exactly where he's going if
he's looking for time
in order to you know get his gun out or
whatever you might have been able to get
away with it but the fact of the matter
is this dude's gonna keep running
and the fact that that he is keep
running you have to
let him go and instead what happens here
is our dude
has decided to fire at this guy who is
quite clearly
in full flight and being in full flight
you gotta
let him go everyone you cannot continue
to fire at him
if he is in retreat that is illegal
because it
is immoral i get it you know he earned
himself a beating in return and he is
morally you know
reprehensible for beating on some guy
just because he didn't like the fact
that he was chewing things
but you can't shoot at somebody who
punched you especially when they're
trying to run away notice that that's
exactly what he did here
now our dude is gonna go back inside and
our initial aggressor
has a whole bunch of bullet holes in his
right leg apparently shot four times in
his right leg and a bystander came to
try to help him
he said hey go and call you know for
some professional help or whatever and
that guy did
a good reminder to keep your first aid
kit on you another good reminder for our
aggressor don't start none won't be none
right
he ends up getting shot a couple times
and i know that it's kind of thinking
stuff for me as well when i you know i
asked some attorney friends of mine why
wasn't he charged and sometimes a
prosecuting attorney will say yeah you
got what you deserve by getting shot a
couple times so i'm not going to charge
you from there
because you should learn your lesson
just from getting shot but biggest thing
here i think this guy was a lawful
concealed carrier but he is going to do
a long time in prison
because he went beyond the bounds of
self-defense and became a punisher and
not a protector
we can't do that we must use our
firearms lawfully so de-escalate escape
and evade whenever possible
make sure that you have a high level of
empty-handed skills because you want to
use your firearm as a tool of last
resort
and when somebody is attempting to
retreat you have to let them you can't
shoot them if you don't want to go to
prison
learn that as you seek to cover your asp