people ask me all the time if self
defenders actually need a fast draw to
first shot this video shows us yes they
do welcome to today's active
self-protection lesson I'm your host
John Correa today's video comes to us
from natal in Brazil after thorough
testing I recently changed my everyday
OC spray to Palm personal defense spray
it's nasty stuff and I recommend it
highly see these guys in a moto come on
a guy and say they're gonna rob him but
he's an off-duty MP so he's gonna draw
his gun and go to work knock the guy on
the back of the bike down very very
quickly and the rider he bounces awful
hard he gets the heck out of there and
what's gonna happen here is a guy who's
laying there if you go read the news
story linked in the description he
didn't make it he took the what looks to
be maybe asphalt temperature challenge
or maybe dirt the other guy ran off they
got him at the emergency room now what
you don't see or have a hard time seeing
is that this MP is actually shot he's
been shot through the ribs and into the
lungs so you're gonna see him here now
have to take follow-up actions get his
gun his holster out here put his gun in
his holster and put it back on cuz it's
a crap holster is what it looks like to
me get on his phone and get some
follow-up actions here and and get this
guy's gun and put it away he is in
stable condition last I saw this one
ends with the good guy doing okay he did
handle his business and we wish him a
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be next out of today's video I want to
think about the incredible importance of
paying attention also about that
critical draw to first shot and about
the incredible importance of emotional
fitness and staying in the fight so
let's think about these transitional
spaces here the public places where
you're at are transitional spaces and
therefore you have to be paying
attention you notice here that our MP
has a set of external headphones on and
you can see right now that he's got that
on his Walkman or his phone whatever it
is in his left hand and guys I can't
tell you enough you got to be able to
pay attention to your surroundings and
using devices like this I get it we all
want to listen to our Tunes or a podcast
or whatever
you gotta be paying attention to your
world so keep your volume low enough in
order to do so or maybe even one ear
open because he didn't do that notice he
didn't really see these guys until the
bad guy has a gun up and out and on him
and the challenge here is for our good
guy is that he's drawn from the drop at
this point that he is gonna have
significant problems because he decides
at this moment oh no this guy has a gun
on me and I have to draw but when you
draw from a drop you're gonna have a
heck of a hard time you better be fast
and you better be able to get the gun
out in an incredible hurry or not draw
from the drop at all if you've been
paying attention you might have had some
time and some options to do better stuff
but he decides instead to get the gun
out and go and if you watch and you time
that there it was about 1.4 3 seconds
from when he oriented on his threat and
realized that he had a threat to the
time that his gun came out and the first
shot went off and that's when the bad
guy shot went off as well and I'm pretty
sure where he got hit so this is why we
say friends a fast and accurate drawn
first shot is important now I'm not
saying it would have made everything
better but if he had a one-second draw
to first shot a one point two second
draw to first shot he'd have been ahead
of the bad guy and may have not enough
now there is follow-up shots necessary
couple things here I want to talk about
recognize that our good guy is shooting
one-handed now he's done enough to the
guy that was very close but he doesn't
really get a good hit on the guy in the
yellow pants who was the driver because
he's firing one-handed why is he firing
one-handed because he still has his
phone in his hand droplets in your
support hand get two hands on the gun
you could pick it up later after you win
the gunfight now he goes back to the
first guy here but notice that there's a
shot that goes over the top of our bad
guy who's laying down and that shot
isn't helpful the number one cause of
reloading and gunfights is missing
don't miss only shoot fast enough that
you can guarantee that you will get hits
and shots that miss the bad guy don't
effectively stop the threat they allow
him to stay in the fight you want to put
a shot in him because Phibbs is what
gets him to think about other stuff and
then gives you more time and you notice
that there when he finally got another
good shot at him is when the bad guy
gives up psychologically there that's
actually a psych stop not a
neuromuscular incapacitation or blood
loss stop now eventually he's gonna
finally give up on this guy and now you
got to start follow-up actions and as
the legendary lawman Chuck Haggard says
you got to take those actions in
order did I hit him did it work do I
need to shoot him again now a wider scan
or his buddy's gone did he bring anybody
else to the fight next thing you got to
do and I hid as everybody else around me
okay and one thing I see our good guy
not to hear is he doesn't do any check
of himself and I hid and under
adrenaline you may not recognize you've
been shot you better do a blood check
and that's kind of thing that you learn
in a trauma medical class but he does
some good stuff here he does get the gun
away from the bad guy if you have to
stay in the vicinity of a downed
attacker you need to get the gun away
from him that said though he left that
gun fairly close he kicked it a little
ways away from him but we've seen videos
in the past where bad guys come back to
life and and you know resurrect not
resurrect but they resuscitate after
having regained some blood flow so kick
that gun way the heck away from him if
you have to stay in his vicinity and I
get the fact that he's gonna beat on
this guy a little bit here he's angry
out on the guy shot him I totally get it
but don't become a predator everybody
take better follow up actions that
doesn't do anything to make him safer
and he needs to get some medical help
for himself as well so now he's gonna
start taking follow-up actions you want
to be the first one on the phone to
9-1-1 you want to have good descriptions
of the bad guys you want them to know
what is going on and again you want to
know that aftermath of a deadly force
encounter and have your trauma medical
equipment on you and have the skills and
ability to use it so always keep your
med kit nearby always keep the skills
high for that as well overall sense this
guy did a fine job he repelled the
attack one of those guys took the room
temperature challenged the other guys
scampered off our good guy lived to see
another day so I'm gonna say he covered
his ass
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