when rival gangs get after each other
good saints sober moral people gotta get
out of dodge
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welcome to today's lesson here on active
self protection i'm your host
john korea today's video comes to us
from east st louis missouri
these guys are having an argument
outside of this convenience store and
it's about to break out into a gunfight
cops are looking for all these guys
still it's getting pretty crazy here
watch what happens as the gunfire starts
in the black car
and the red car returns fire and these
guys are having a gun battle and you see
people
bugging out of there but think about all
the people inside this convenience store
as this gun fight is happening you see
it from another angle
as they're firing back and forth at each
other see this woman just buying some
lottery tickets by the front door
you see her get down and try to get away
you can see that on the left side there
as we go back to a bigger one there
and she's gonna crawl the heck out of
the way more gunfire with
others getting down inside the store as
well
go back to these guys continuing to have
the gunfight and they're just shooting
at each other and getting after one
another
and apparently nobody was hit because
these guys drove off
and cops have not been able to contact
any of them and that's where this one
ends
holy smokes that all went down quickly
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so i don't know what started this
particular one and our lessons are going
to focus
in on some of the tactical end from
these guys and i want everybody to
recognize that i'm not saying the good
person the bad person here
or whatever because i don't know how
this fight started or what but i'm gonna
guess because nobody called the cops
from them
and and nobody made a police report or
any of those things that these guys are
involved in shady stuff is what it
sounds like to me okay that out of the
way
notice that the shooting starts from the
black car black car
shoots at the red car and that shot goes
significantly high you can actually see
it kind of going through the uh the roof
of that car listen guys your first shot
is often your best one and things go
downhill from there i'm not saying he
should have shot or any of those things
but even if somebody gets the jump on
you you still are in the fight and got
to get back after it now these guys are
going and going hard
a couple things i want to notice here
let's think about the guy in the black
at the bottom of our screen
he's done a good job of getting low you
could see those bullets streaking right
through the silver car
and so he is getting down and getting
away and also i think using that wheel
for pretty decent cover
also the driver of the car of the black
car you can see him here get down
and that's important because the driver
of the red car is shooting through the
windows of the black car
you could see that that you know smoke
from the one that went through
the busted glass and thankfully he has
gotten low
so i also want you to notice the fact
that our driver of the black car the guy
in the black shirt
behind the black car is moving and he is
popping up in a place that he
is not expected so our dude in the red
car is expecting him somewhere behind
the doors but where he's going to get is
he's going to get him around the other
side
as pat mcnamara says people are
pre-programmed to pick up patterns of
unpredictability so
got to be in a spot he is not ready now
that being said
notice that our dude here is just
sticking his gun over the top and pretty
much
firing point shooting wildly so he has
some index of where the bullet is going
but very very rare
probably a better bet here to lean out
get two hands on the gun
and and again use his cover a little
more effectively notice he's hugging his
cover
very common and what i recommend instead
is get a little distance from your cover
and that'll give you a better way
to see what's going on because instead
here you notice he did get a hit on the
windshield that was actually a
pretty good shot right here you can see
the the um
you know glass breaking there in the
windshield
so he's just sticking his hand up here
far better had he shifted back and used
his cover a little bit more effectively
you learn that kind of thing in a
covering concealment class
and actually getting some practice with
it but notice as well they get lucky
shots all the time too
i also want to notice notice our dude
here is is fixing a malfunction in his
gun
do malfunctions happen in real gunfights
yes they do
but they almost always happen because
people are carrying really crappy guns
they they sometimes happen because in a
real gunfight
the gun is functioning fine but people
get auditory exclusion
and so they think the gun is not firing
correctly because it's not having
the effect they think that it should
have when the gun is actually running
fine i can't tell in this instance
but that does happen because of auditory
exclusion so make sure that you're able
to check the gun
and if you do have a malfunction clear
it quickly think about the bystanders
now
notice as well what i want you to see is
that as we go to a bigger spot here as
soon as the glass starts breaking of
course
everybody here is at incredible risk and
notice that our uh
our bystander does a great job here of
getting down you don't have to really
train people
to get down when there's bullets flying
that is a pretty you know normal
standard reaction and if you do start
hearing bullets that's a great thing to
do get down and get away from the sound
of gunfire
that's exactly what she does here is she
is going to get down and then move
away from where that gunfire is
impinging on her
that is the right answer and i would
reinforce that to your loved ones
as somebody who carries a defensive
firearm i always taught my kids when
they were little if ever you see dad's
gun
or if ever you hear gunfire i want you
to get down and get away from me
because bad things probably coming my
way so teaching your loved ones get
down and get away from the sound of
gunfire so that you're not in the way
is a good thing now again these this
lady did that
pretty normally here and these guys did
it as well as soon as bullets started
flying
they got down started getting away all
right back to our gun fight here
one thing i noticed here from our driver
of the black car is then he popped up on
the other side
and that dude expected him there so he
was looking and when we
one of the things we talk about here is
are you the hunter or are you the rabbit
and you want to be the hunter not the
rabbit in this particular case
the guy in the red car had pulled out
and now he's looking where am i going to
shoot this guy
where is he popping up and he happened
to see him come at the spot that he
expected so it's one of the good reasons
to be back away from your cover
and to be able to be an and find a spot
that he does not expect you again
that you are the hunter and not the
rabbit and and because
when you're the rabbit and you pop up in
a spot the hunter especially you can get
shot pretty quickly
so some stuff here again i'm not talking
about who's a good person bad person
here but from a tactical perspective we
do learn some lessons
and for the bystanders get the heck down
get away from the danger
as people are doing crazy stuff and you
seek to cover your rasp