learning how to effectively use a
firearm while seated in a vehicle
while not a beginning skill i think is
an important one
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here at active cell protection i'm your
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on the right has a diplomat in it who
is an activist in the lgbt community in
his place and they don't know if this
was a targeted attack
or not but you can see these guys come
up and start pointing a gun
at the window trying to open the door
well he's got a security detail in there
with him
and eventually they're not going to have
it start taking shots and the guy in the
gray sweater
uh is not going to make it through there
without any injury you can see his legs
sitting out in front of him there i'm
going to guess that was a spinal shot
that he can't use his legs anymore which
is why he's just laying
there and giving up the ghost and making
concrete angels there
so the security team is gonna drive
everyone else off news stories linked in
the description said nobody else was
harmed but this bad guy
apparently they're still looking for at
least one of his accomplices man those
guys
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first things first about vehicles
remember usually your car
is the best solution to one of these
problems so i want you to pay attention
in your vehicle i know all of us get to
this place
where when we're sitting at a stoplight
or whatever especially in traffic
a lot of people tend to look at their
social media check their phones whatever
the case may be
you know answer texts or whatever
because you're not supposed to do that
while you're driving
but remember that paying attention to
your world is critically important so at
the very least i want you to check
your mirrors kind of see what's going on
behind you and around you
because again that attention buys you
time and time buys you options that said
you can't keep from happening all the
time and that's exactly what goes down
here
these guys are going to run up to the
car and try the door so you know i'm
gonna say this lock your dang doors
as soon as you get in the car you need
to lock the doors and these guys
did that again this is a professional
security detail so they're handling the
little things very very well but us as
private citizens as well guys
make sure that you lock your doors that
that door is an
effective barrier and we see it again
and again and again especially when
they're looking to steal your car
whatever
very rare that somebody just walks up
and murders somebody in their driver's
seat so lock your door provides you a
barrier which gives you some time
to respond effectively now then these
guys are surrounded on both sides but
they're not completely enclosed i want
you to see they've got an out right here
and that out goes left or right so
either way they want to go you can see
up there to the right
they can get over that curb in that
vehicle with a little bit of ground
clearance super easy or they could even
go left i think that's not probably as
good a solution in this case
which is i think a good reason to have a
vehicle that has a little bit of ground
clearance and a little bit of horsepower
if you can we can't all do that some of
us got to drive smaller vehicles
but even in a smaller vehicle you go hey
i'm going to go over a curb if i have to
go over a curb but an emergency a curb
is a suggestion it's not the law or
nothing
so use that to get out of there if you
can instead they chose to fight and and
that's
a effective solution as well i will say
this
i don't think that first shot got him i
think that first shot missed and it's
harder to hit somebody
from the driver's seat with a gun in
your hand than you think it is and i
know the distances are very very short
but it's a more difficult shooting
problem than you think the overpressure
is significant so take a class
on fighting with a gun in your hand in a
vehicle it's the second
shot that got him here so you notice
that first shot did start the fibs a
factor you know fudge i'm being shot at
started these guys moving away but guys
got a gun in his hand and so that second
shot
absolutely justified and and again maybe
gives our
our defender here though we can't see
inside the car a little bit better
chance
to get themselves in a better position
to see more of their sighting system
whether that's using the slide
whether that's using the sights or or
what have you to get an effective hit
and that second one knocks him over but
recognize he's still
in the fight so thankfully the other
guys run off now what are we gonna do
here we have to make good follow-up
actions
so first things first i think this other
person coming out here has just come
right out where where he or she can be
seen by our attacker who is down now
maybe that is
hey you handle this person who is down
i'm gonna look for the other folks i get
that
but use the vehicle effectively as cover
and concealment
to keep from getting a full exposure to
a known threat this guy's just been a
deadly threat to you and yours
so you want to be cautious of that now
very difficult to do under that duress
but i do want to think about that as is
hey wait a minute i know that guy's on
the other side of the car
so i'm going to use my angles
effectively to not be exposed to him now
he's not a threat anymore in that moment
he's tossed his gun whatever
they know they're going to go out and
get him so let's talk about our
follow-up actions here again
making sure that we do appropriate
follow-up actions we use the acronym
tap ifs making sure the threat is down
first that's the t
then look for accomplices they've done
that here's what's going on with that
now talk to my partners is anybody else
hurt is everybody okay
so that's tap now we start working on
ifs next thing that we want to look at
am i
injured so that's the eye then i want to
look at the condition of my firearm is
it loaded
is it in the fight is it ready to go
then appropriate follow-up actions what
do i need to do this moment to make me
safer and to make me less likely to be
re-attacked by these guys
and then finally seek help call it in
get the police on the way and get the
help there that you need so
tap ifs as a follow-up action rather
than just kind of standing around figure
out what you're going to do
so i think these guards did a fine job
they had their doors locked they
they could have used the vehicle maybe
but they use their firearms effectively
put the guy down let's make sure we do
the right follow-up actions as we seek
to cover our asp