I know we talk about fight or flight and
deadly force encounters I want you to
try real hard not to freeze
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you see it's raining outside here which
is kind of rare for us to see an armed
robbery in the rain but these dudes are
going to walk into a washateria a
laundromat first dude pulls a gun and
second dude has a gun in his waistband
that he's gonna put his hand on you can
see the child there who's kind of
looking around at him a little bit he's
going to announce the robbery and you
can see somebody kind of turn around and
look at him and then just kind of wander
off I guess just another day in Houston
he's gonna start looking for the money
here in this you know a laundromat and
oh there it is he finds the the drawer
there with it and so he's just gonna go
grab all that see the person just walk
on by with their laundry like without a
care in the world I'm sure without even
seeing what the heck had gone on and
these two guys are then going to take
themselves and their guns and the money
that they have stolen out of the
registers Without Really interacting
with a single soul and you're going to
see them then run off down the street
now this has gotta I gotta be honest
with you one of the otter armed
robberies that I have ever seen for
several interesting factors but still
some important things for us to think
about as Defenders if you want to work
on those skills so that you know what
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I said earlier it's weird to see a
rainstorm and an armed robbery at the
same time generally speaking bad guys
don't like robbing people in bad weather
they just crawl back into their holes
until the weather's nicer that's why we
don't see a whole lot of this go down
when there's a big snowstorm out or a
big rainstorm that said it doesn't make
you proof from that so you should still
pay attention in your world it's also
not cold or anything certainly not in
Houston in August it's not cold you get
those kind of Summer thunderstorms uh
right there on the water so now these
guys are going to come in and
immediately announce an armed robbery
and there's a bunch of people in this
laundromat so what do you do in this
particular case well first of all I
really think you should teach your
children if you see something that is a
threat I want you to get safe from that
threat don't just stay there and look at
it and of course here this guy's got a
full mask on that's a huge red flag the
other guy's already shown a gun so teach
your children parents if you see
somebody waving a gun around I want you
to get away from there come find Mommy
come find Daddy tell me what is going on
and will to make steps to get safer
never just stand there and watch him
always go and get help make sure that
you're telling your kids that and if you
see that in yourself as an adult don't
just stand there or ignore it do
something about it to make yourself
safer don't just freeze do something so
you see them kind of you know showcasing
and and show the gun to everybody and
then start looking now let's think about
the person in white here if he had been
paying attention because this guy is now
looking back but if he had been wanting
to launch a counter Ambush or one of the
other people in the very top right of
our screen they had the opportunity to
do so particularly when our dude here is
looking down and and taking stuff out of
the drawer then his attention is out of
the way the other guy is pretty much
back to you so really you can have a
pretty darn slow drawing first shot
there you know a two and a half three
second draw doesn't hurt you the guy
who's paying attention to you though a
little bit spicier when he's looking and
down in the drawer you probably gotta
have a sub two second draw or maybe even
a 1.5 when he's looking down there like
that unless his eyebrows are such that
you know he can't just glance up and see
you so again should you choose to in
that case okay fine but make sure that
if you're going to do so that you do so
from a place of significant Advantage
the worst thing that I see here is
people that are just kind of hanging out
now of course we can't see the rest of
the store so I don't know if people are
getting out of the danger zone here or
whatever but I want you to recognize
when his eyes are down like that if
you've got a 1.5 draw the first shot you
can probably get him the guy who is
starting to look your way that's why you
want to go when your go signal happens
so then that way you're not going and
trying to beat him with speed you're
beating him with position of advantage
of course this last one here was
somebody just kind of moseying on by and
not paying attention is just egregious
to me goodness sakes pay attention to
your world remember attention buys you
time time buys you options but just
standing around there doesn't help you
at all
in the end I think this one is at least
somewhat chuckle-worthy because it's
like everyday life in Houston and so
nobody even pays attention to him nobody
addresses them nobody talks to them they
don't talk to anybody else they just
steal all the stuff and run off I'm
really glad nobody got hurt man Houston
is a dangerous town but let's learn the
lessons here so we can better cover our
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