today we get to see a robber dumb enough
to rob someone with a flare gun
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what we see here is the clerk is just
finishing checking this guy out who just
bought a beer and so he's handing him
his change right now we actually have
surveillance video audio so let's listen
in
open the
cash open the cash
oh
far as i can tell police are still
looking for this thief thankfully no one
was hurt let's think about lessons
jeez that one's insane i do have a
question for you out of this one what do
you think should he have gone for it or
just give the guy the money out of the
till let's talk about it in the lessons
as always in these incidents our first
lesson is that our attacker always gets
to set the time and the place of the
attack so as the defender you're on
defense so you're responding to what the
attacker is actually doing so we're
always not anticipating what they might
do or what they could possibly do but
what they are doing and we take our
actions accordingly this is part of
being a good saint sober moral prudent
person so now he's saying oh okay cool
i'm gonna take a phone call now i've
already checked this guy out so he
leaves his beer on the counter and now
he shows up with literally a flare gun
in his hand
so again you're always at the initiative
deficit you're always going to be
responding as a self-defender you see
this flare gun now i'm going to straight
up say a flare gun could hurt you very
badly he pops that first flare off that
is you know a highly flammable material
that could very well stick to you cause
you
second and third degree burns this is
serious stuff just because it's not a
projectile that will necessarily hurt
you like a bullet will doesn't mean it's
nothing so compliance is an option here
and again purposeful compliance gives us
opportunities to resist so there are
multiples here he's looking away right
here could have just tackled the guy
right there easy peasy lemon squeezy now
again he chooses not to in this instance
so okay fine i can't open that man and
the guy says all right open up the
register
now straight up right here we talk about
this all the time on the channel if our
defender the guy in the orange had a two
second draw to first shot he has a
guaranteed hit on this guy right here so
if he's carrying a firearm draws that
firearm with a 2.0 draw to first shot
from literally bad breath distances here
he can get a hit on this guy that the
guy can't stop because he's turned his
shoulders away from him showed his ear
to him two second draw the first shot
gets him every single time here so if
you got a firearm know what your cues
are they're going to be visual and
that's what we see again and again now
instead again he chooses now i'm just
going to go ahead and do what you want
okay fine the guy says yo open up the
register okay man i'm gonna open up the
register for you
now let's look for our second counter
ambush opportunity here as the guy goes
and now again his attention is diverted
away from our defenders so even without
a firearm here again a big size
discrepancy are that our victim here
could easily have chosen nope i'm just
going to tackle this dude and i'm
absolutely going to pick him up put him
down on the ground if he had the skill
to do so now if he chose to do so he's
going to have to get all of this guy
because the gun is on the other side of
him so he's going to have to get him all
now on the other hand could have just
chosen and this is what he chose here
hey it's not my money this is not my
circus these are not my monkeys i'm just
going to let it go and that is an
acceptable answer as well that
compliance is an acceptable answer
though it's not a foolproof answer we do
see that on the channel that people get
hurt even in full compliance mode so
it's not a foolproof answer
now then what we do see here is the
chase we don't chase fleeing felons we
don't watch them go out because exactly
what happens here is what we see we see
our victim come out and like oh okay i'm
going to follow this guy out and see
which direction he goes but he doesn't
leave yet because he drops some money on
the ground and that's gonna cause him to
come back and recreate himself as a
threat so he reemerges as a threat when
he wasn't a threat in that moment so by
chasing him by walking out after him our
victim actually put himself at risk
again and this is probably the primary
reason that i say don't chase fleeing
felons whether you're chasing them at a
walk or a run just let them go because
otherwise they could re-emerge as a
threat and that is not a great idea so
again the flare gun didn't get used here
thankfully other than as an intimidation
tool multiple opportunities for a
counter ambush for a self-defender here
but compliance did work as a strategy in
this instance so he got away from that
without getting hurt so that's an
acceptable outcome in my book too