I can't believe I have to say what I'm
about to say but if you have a gun in
the car fiddle flirting with it in the
drive-through is stupid
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hi everyone welcome to today's lesson
here at active self-protection I'm your
host John Korea and I'm your Saturday
co-host Stephanie Weidner today's video
is from Chesterfield County Virginia
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vehicle purchase you're gonna see a car
pull up to the drive through here it has
a man his wife and his two children in
that car it's going to place an order
like normal now this man has a firearm
like in the console of his vehicle you
can't really see it right now but he is
going to take that firearm and kind of
put it in his lap and if you go read the
news stories I've Linked In the
description he says it wasn't his gun
that he borrowed it from somebody or
something but what you're going to see
happen here is he has them going to now
pick that firearm up and kind of playing
with it stick it on the car door and
press the trigger and it goes off he
thought that gun was unloaded again go
look at the new story that I've Linked
In the description but the bullet went
through his car door into the fast food
restaurant and hit the clerk inside it
did not kill the clerk inside thankfully
but it did hit the clerk inside they did
make a full recovery it took police
quite a while to find this man but they
did find him he ended up pleading guilty
to one misdemeanor and one felony
offense so he won't do this again
because he is prohibited for moaning
Firearms hey fun fact even without the
injury in many places a negligent
discharge can be filed as a felony I
think that's something most people don't
realize and that knowing people that
that has happened to it has some pretty
serious consequences even if you don't
ultimately end up with a felony on your
record let's talk about it you know
Stephanie if I had a dollar for every
time I hear of people negligently
handling fire arms and doing stupid
stuff like this I feel like we could
retire yeah you're not kidding
particularly in some of the Facebook
groups that we have where they you know
it's it's all about practicing and
handling firearms and and dry fire
practice and all of that it happens and
it's really easy to throw shade on
someone like this uh but all of us that
are around Firearms are at risk of this
happening so it I think there's a lot of
serious lessons that we all can learn
because about the time you decide this
can never happen to me is when you're
probably at most risks and listen we we
practice the rules of safe Firearms
handling all the time everywhere we go
rule one we always keep Firearms pointed
in the direction of least consequence
rule number two we always keep our
finger high and in home base until we've
made a decision to Fire and rule number
three we always keep Firearms unloaded
until they're in use this guy clearly
thought this was an unloaded gun
violated all three rules of safe
Firearms handling and because of that
put this clerk at risk his children at
risk his wife at risk and his future is
really severely impacted by that and
those of us that handle Firearms all the
time have to remember that that humans
Make Mistakes by definition we make
mistakes we miss things the way our
brains process things it's kind of not a
matter of if we will break a Firearms
rule at some point but when and that's
why the redundancy is so important if
you religiously follow all of them all
of the time the one time you miss or are
inattentive or or whatever may have you
the others will cover you and keep this
sort of thing from happening so it's
really important for all of us I also
think this is worth remembering Hey
listen I hate car holsters I hate
leaving guns and consoles I hate those
stupid magnet holsters that they sell on
the internet and listen this is an
intentional act he intentionally presses
the trigger so when people ask me John
you know what's the right holster for my
car it's the one that you use to bring
the gun into the car that was on your
person and you minimize unnecessary
Firearms handling this is a guy fiddle
farting with his gun is what it is and
quite frankly he deserves to be
convicted of a felony for this and this
kind of recklessness and negligence
could easily have ended someone's life
this is not a joke and this is why we
say we always follow the rules that say
Firearms handling and we never play with
guns a really good quality holster and
if you don't have one we have several
recommendations on our website active
self protection.com because a good
holster will not only keep your Firearms
safe and secure but it will keep it
comfortable on your body so that you are
able to wear them while you are driving
while you are moving around while you're
going for walks and playing with little
kids and what have you so there's no
need for it to be on and off if you're
carrying a firearm all the time you know
that the most dangerous time is when
you're doing what we call administrative
gun handling that's when you're not
practicing or not doing anything else
but you're getting guns in and out of
holsters putting them away for the
evening getting them out for the evening
and wise Firearms handlers minimize that
as much as possible when I'm done with
my gun at the end of the day the
entirety of the holster comes off and
goes into a quick access safe so exactly
so I don't have to increase my handling
of a firearm there by increasing my risk
for a negligent discharge and it's that
kind of thoughtful
um planning and gun handling that I
think most Firearms carriers can benefit
from and really reduce their risk in a
meaningful way I also think one final
thing here the guy just ran off and he
tried to hide from what he had done
don't do that friends if you screw up
own your screw up right so a good sane
sober moral prudent person does their
best to do the right thing at all times
but if they don't do the right thing
they own their mess and this guy didn't
own his mess and I think that's probably
why he ends up with a felony charge here
so please let's follow the rules of safe
Firearms handling let's not
unnecessarily administratively handle
our Firearms let's make sure that we are
good Saints sober moral prudent people
and cover our asp