if an armed robber threatens you with a
firearm number one assume that they made
it number two assume that it's real
number three assume that it's functional
hi everyone welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection i'm your
host as always john korea and i am
grateful that you're here for today's
lesson it comes to us from hartford in
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set for your next range trip the video
that was released the robbery's already
in progress you can see the robber has a
gun leveled at the clerk and that robber
is a 12 year old kid i'm not joking
let's watch it with some audio
okay
yeah
here get out right
here take it
one more time we see him point the gun
at her and she's like are you sure and
when she does he desk pops and shoots
the gun in the air which makes her take
a bag with several thousand bucks in it
and hand it to him and if you go read
the news story that i've linked in the
description uh he didn't get far the
cops caught him a couple of hours later
and he uh you know faced a he's facing a
whole bunch of charges he got the gun
apparently out of the safe of his
guardian it didn't say parents it said
guardian and so that sounds like that's
a tough spot to be in and we're going to
talk about it well that's one of the
more interesting armed robberies that i
have ever seen hey did you know that the
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sweet first thing here everybody is that
you must keep your firearms secure from
unauthorized access now this young
person they that guy guy has owns all of
the outcomes that he gets from using a
firearm to rob someone okay and and
that's heinous and evil but but clearly
the gun was being kept in a safe by his
guardian but not kept from unauthorized
access and if you've got somebody that
you think if you have any worry that
they can misuse a firearm in any way
whether to harm themselves or to harm
others you are morally and legally
obligated to keep that gun out of that
person's hands and so keep your firearms
locked up friends especially if you've
got troubled kids in your household you
know particularly if they've got any
kind of danger to self or danger to
others in their background or or if
you're worried about it you got to keep
that there now secondly if in the event
itself as the clerk if somebody points a
gun at you you've got to trust the fact
that they are willing to use it you got
to believe them when they say give me
the money and they point a gun at you
that's threatening your life and so if
you don't have a gun of your own and
you're not going to end up
counter-ambushing the thing to do is
just comply not question because then
what happens is he ends up having a desk
pop
that said one of the things that we
notice all the time on the channel if
somebody actually shoots the gun then
that is an indicator that they are
willing to use the gun and to discharge
it that is absolutely a precursor to
using the firearm to harm you and so i
you know when we say when somebody bonks
you on the head with a gun they
generally don't use it as a ballistic
tool if they shoot it in the air they're
very willing to use it as a ballistic
tool so take that even more seriously of
course you know it's it's a gross safety
violation or whatever now if you're
paying attention what kind of happened
there is the kit actually malfunctioned
the gun you know the gun malfunction and
you can actually see right there that
the slide is slightly back because i
think he's got a stovepipe out of that
gun and so it's not in function right
now so if you're paying attention in the
midst of an armed robbery you might have
been able to come around the counter and
take that gun away from that kid and
spank his butt with it you know if you
uh had seen that and know what it meant
that said that's a lot to ask from the
clerk thankfully the cops caught this
kid let's learn the lessons so that we
can better cover our ass
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