compliance is no guarantee that you
won't be injured in an armed robbery but
half-hearted resistance is almost a
guarantee that you will be harmed
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hi everyone welcome to today's lesson
here at active Self Protection I'm your
host as always John Korea today we have
two armed robberies both out of Houston
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first one dude just walks around the
counter this fast food joint to try to
get into the registers and safe
employees going to kind of push him out
of the way and be like yo man you can't
be back here you got to go back over
there and that's going to cause our
robber to get angry and attack him and
so he throws several punches at the
clerk who then backs away from him and
leaves him alone so now the guy's gonna
try to get the safe open he's not going
to be able to so he is ending up to run
off with literally nothing this next one
these group of guys has come into the
store a little bit earlier was there
were customers just a few minutes before
then they walked out kind of established
their plan gonna see the guy in the
white jacket here is going to re-enter
the store and then as he jumps the
counter he is going to pull a firearm on
the clerk jump back behind the counter
and the clerk is going to kind of back
off you're going to see him point with
the gun a little bit be like yo man give
me this stuff and the guy says I can't
get into the safes man whatever and he's
going to kind of paw at at the gun a
little bit which is going to cause the
robber to hit him in the face with the
gun and the guy doesn't get away from
him so he tries to chamber it pushes the
guy off him and runs off with literally
nothing again cops say they're still
looking for these guys but they don't
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it's perfectly legal and moral to keep
somebody from stealing your stuff okay
you have the right to use ordinary
physical force that you reasonably
believe is necessary to to counter
somebody trying to steal your things and
to counter a trespass which this is what
it is he's gone somewhere he's not
allowed so that is a trespassing and so
you have the right to do that but
recognize that you might be the target
of physical force yourself that may
cause retaliatory Force so this guy's
kind of just pushing this guy off hey
man you got to get out of here back away
from my stuff that's totally okay but
you better be ready for the guy to get
physically aggressive so I'd only
recommend doing that if you have a
pretty decent level of empty-handed
skills which not very many people do so
you got to be honest about your skill
set in that case so instead the guy
attacks him I think it was the right
thing for the clerk to then get the heck
out of there now in the state of Texas
of course using Force to commit theft
here that turns it into a robbery you
can actually resist robbery with deadly
force in Texas so you know I wouldn't
recommend that at all another one here
in this particular instance as the guy
jumps the counter so much higher risk
here because the Dude pulls a gun now I
always recommend recognize guy pulls a
gun on you assume it's real assume it's
loaded assume he's willing to use it on
you and this guy actually has pretty
good trigger finger discipline here in
this particular case but the biggest
thing I want you to pay attention to
here is if you're going to try this and
resist this guy you need to have the
ability to disarm that gun and that's no
small feat especially in a small
environment like this so I'd recommend
if you even want to think about
something like that that you make sure
that you get on the mats and work actual
disarms and not goofy weirdo Kung Fu Wu
disarms real life simple fast and Full
Throttle like you see actually working
happen here on the active Self
Protection channel in real life
incidents instead this guy kind of pause
at it a little bit and that causes the
guy to hit him upside the head with the
gun and and listen one thing here that
we see now we've seen another instance
of a guy here recently who hit a guy
upside the head with a gun and then shot
him with it but generally speaking if he
hits you with the gun he's less likely
to be willing to shoot you with the gun
so that's a positive thing okay he's
just trying to intimidate me with the
gun that's a bit of information you can
use in your defense however
I want you to recognize if you don't
deal with the leveraging arm or if you
just kind of paw at his hand with the
gun in it he's gonna whack you upside
the head with that gun or he could shoot
you with that gun they take that as a
personal offense and it turns this kind
of resource predation into social
violence and you don't want to get into
the social violence aspect of it now
again though his little bit of of
resistance was effective in this case
the guy decided nope I'm not going to
get what I want and so he left
empty-handed and so you definitely could
consider both of these to be positive
outcomes self-defense incidents however
both of these Defenders ended up with a
lump on their Noggin for that so we're
going to call it a partial victory at
best let's make sure we learn the
lessons to cover our aspect