if you're familiar with what real
firearms look like you might be able to
spot a fake
in the act
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john correa an evidence-based defensive
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this guy's walking in and showcasing a
gun and threatening
this bank with the gun and he's just
robbed another bank
now this customer in here in the
tracksuit looks at it and the news story
says realized it was a fake gun
and starts yipping at this guy and going
look man that's not a real gun get out
of here with that trash and tells him
to get the heck out of here and then is
going to kind of walk him off on the
other side we have the other angle of it
as well
you see him here talking at the guy his
body language seems to indicate he's got
very little concern because again the
news story said he realized that it was
a fake gun and realizing it was a fake
gun he realized it wasn't really a
threat
and told the guy to get the heck out of
there now what's gonna happen is is our
perp
is going to actually run off but our
intrepid defender here is not going to
let him he's actually going to run
out after him and and hold him down
actually tackle him a little ways down
we don't have that on video
and uh hold him until police arrive the
dude has been sentenced
to life in prison for uh two counts of
robbery aggravated robbery and use of a
firearm in the commission of a crime
and our hero actually was awarded a cash
award out of the sheriff's fund
apparently
and that is where this one ends good job
for him for recognizing what was
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to get better with your skills as a self
defender so i know that people are going
to ask well wait a minute john
you know does it happen that people rob
guns or rob banks with
with fake guns yeah it happens all the
time we actually see it on the channel
pretty regular
they're using it as an intimidation tool
and hoping people are too stupid to know
the difference between a real one and a
fake one so
that's a good lesson to be able to know
and recognize what does a real firearm
look like and what is a truly
a clearly fake one look like you should
be able to do that notice as well though
that our bad guy's walking in and he has
this gun stuck in a bag pretty common
actually for him to stick it in a bag
and then pull it out at the last minute
which is what we see here
so you know it doesn't have a holster
for it doesn't have it stuck down his
pants
has it stuck in a bag i see that
actually pretty regular
and then he's gonna come out and
threaten with it and notice as well he's
using his motorcycle
helmet and his jacket as camouflage as
you know
that he cannot be identified well and i
think that that's not
very common in some parts of the world
though of course with mask restrictions
and all that stuff because of the
pandemic people are doing that stuff
more and more now notice here he gets
up and points a gun at the clerks now
how stupid do you have to be
to recognize really that there is a
bulletproof piece of glass between you
and these clerks and the clerks are
sitting in a safe place they hit their
panic button and they're going to go
into the back room
where you can't get them anyways but
this is uh you know kind of a thing that
we see with bank robbers all the time
they're pretty stupid um
now but why do people rob banks because
they get away with it a surprising
amount of time
now that said our look at our intrepid
defender and hero here he is looking and
trying to identify now i would recommend
getting the heck out of the danger zone
instead because if you didn't identify
it very very quickly you put yourself a
danger here
the other thing here is if you recognize
it's fake you can still just get the
heck out of the danger zone
because you don't know what else he's
got on him you don't know if he's got
partners you don't know any of those
things you just know that he's
brave enough or stupid enough to
threaten people with a pretend gun
now then that's it i know some people
are going to ask here in the united
states
if this guy had a firearm on him because
he was a concealed carrier
would he be justified in order to draw
his firearm and shoot at the guy
well if he really knew that it was fake
he knew that it wasn't
actually a deadly threat and he
articulated that probably not
in all reality that said he would be
really stupid to articulate that if he
did draw his firearm
probably could you know a bank robbery
is a felony and a forcible felony so
he would probably be justified at least
to draw you know to draw his firearm
now let's also think about the fact that
i don't recommend chasing bad guys
it worked out well here the guy was
actually lauded for his efforts and all
that stuff but
very dangerous because you don't know if
he's got friends out there you don't
know if
he has other weapons or anything like
that so when they start running just
let him go it's the smarter thing to do
now that said it got him
you know a citation and some money and
all that stuff to chase this guy down
so kudos to him for being willing to do
that i would recommend that we take a
safer and more prudent path
as we seek to cover our asp