one of the mistakes that good sane sober
moral people make is expecting violent
criminal actors to think like you do
they don't welcome to today's active
self-protection lesson I'm your host
John Correa today's video comes to us
from Pomona California in the United
States many thanks to magtec ammunition
the sponsor of today's act of
self-protection lesson it's the only
ammo I put through my rifles or pistols
at the range make sure to go read the
news stories that I have linked in the
description you see this guy come up
here and he's just gonna walk into this
store he's got a paint can like a spray
can in his hand then it looks like he's
trying to return that he like he doesn't
like the nozzle on it or something like
that so you gonna talk to these guys and
say hey man I want to return this nozzle
now what's gonna happen he's gonna show
it to the guy hey man didn't have a
nozzle on it or whatever I want to
return it now the owners gonna gonna go
look at this now what you gonna read in
that news story is the fact that this
guy is a prohibited possessor and he's
got several violent convictions in his
past but he's been pretty cool to this
point or whatever hey man this is what's
going on now again our you know our
intended victim here or store owner is
gonna hand it back to man there's
nothing we can do that's what it needs
this is yours and I ain't got nothing to
do with that so the guy's gonna get
really frustrated throw it at him here
and start picking other stuff up and
throwing it at him again so the store
owner is actually gonna draw his firearm
and pointed at this guy but he is
utterly unintimidated by the guy's
firearm so now he's gonna argue with him
and yell at him some and call him a
bunch of dirty names and all those
things while our owner has the gun way
out in front and on that guy like this
even again with his finger on the
trigger gets his phone out to record the
guy a little bit as well so now our bad
guy is actually going to walk out to his
car and retrieve a rifle from his car
out of the backseat now you might be
asking a question how can a prohibited
possessor have possession of a firearm I
know that shocking to those of us that
criminals still have criminal access to
firearms but that's what happens and
when he does here he actually takes two
shots into the store according to what
the police have said links in the
description and again that drives
everybody towards the back of the stores
you're gonna see him here look for them
and hop up and down issue some
challenges ask him if he wants to come
out and have a gun fight but none of the
people that are inside actually want to
have a gun fight with this guy and so he
is going to go back around loop
look for them a little bit and then go
back to his car put the rifle in and get
the heck out of here police because of
the surveillance footage we're able to
find this guy they arrested him he is
serving six years for various crimes
committed here he's gonna have some more
felonies on his record that's where this
one ends boy that gun did not scare him
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let's hit the lessons I want to start
the lessons here by talking about
de-escalation escape and avoidance
because again for the cost of a can of
paint the owner probably avoids this
whole thing and I get it he's armed he's
can protect himself all that stuff this
is a very dangerous situation and
sometimes discretion is a better part of
valor sometimes a better thing to do is
man hey listen wait whatever I'm gonna
take good care of you as a customer come
back and see us again sometime and that
way you don't have these problems
de-escalate escape and avoid understand
verbal judo the art of winning friends
and influencing people incredibly
important now that guy gets angry at
what's going on and he decides to throw
this big can of paint is that assault
with a deadly weapon I would argue that
it is because you know again when we
talk about using a firearm we talk about
a threat of death or of great bodily
harm great bodily harm usually looking
like something like stitches something
like a hospital stay those kinds of
things and throwing a full can of spray
paint at somebody could certainly cause
a grievous bodily injury could certainly
cause stitches bleeding hospital trip
stuff like that which is the definition
of great bodily harm so yes this could
be considered for sure a you know an
assault with a deadly weapon and when
the guy comes again now our own appoints
a gun at him draws a firearm and points
it at him now I'm gonna tell you right
now you want to look at your state's
laws on this this is in California and
California Penal Code 417 said that this
would be a crime except if he did it in
self-defense so drawing a firearm except
for in the case of self-defense is a
crime and is a felony crime in the state
of California however here I think it
can make a strong argument that the
a defensive display because a guy has
thrown multiple things at him he has
shown intent to do deadly harm we know
you know I don't know that the owner
knew this but we know that this guy is a
prohibited possessor and a violent felon
so certainly reasonable in those
instances we have laws like that in
Arizona too and want you to check the
laws in your state come follow us on a
some extra we talk about this stuff on
John's brief so we can talk about your
state now then regardless of him having
a firearm out I want you to recognize
the fact that this bad guy is utterly
and completely unimpressed with his
firearm and you have to ask the question
if I draw a firearm a pointed at
somebody and I expect them to obey me at
that point what do I do when they say no
what do I do when they're unimpressed
with what I'm doing what do I do when
the fact that it does not get the kind
of response that I want because just
because you can draw a firearm and point
it at somebody does not mean that you
can use it because moments matter and
this guy in this very moment is not a
deadly threat so you got to recognize
wait a minute I still may have to put
this gun away I still may have to use my
hands or less lethal - a great reason
for here to have something like an OC
spray on you that you can get this guy
the heck out of there two things I want
you to notice here number one that the
owner has put that gun way over the
counter don't want you to do that keep
that gun you know we'll keep the space
if you possibly can
number two is fingers on the trigger
remember you want to keep your finger
off the trigger until you have made the
decision to fire because otherwise
negligent discharges happen we don't
want that so keep your finger off the
trigger I get it this owner is worried
about what's coming but I want your
finger off the trigger till you've made
the decision to fire now then I also
want to note the fact that he's got his
phone out here I would strongly
recommend that instead that you have
something like an assistant like Siri or
like a Google whatever to call on
speakerphone call using your smart watch
something like that so you can put two
hands on that gun and really defend your
space and keep your spacing got a lot of
things going on to have a phone up in
your face and trying to dial
nine-one-one so I would strongly
encourage you to keep your phone in your
non-dominant pocket so that you can get
to it if you need to but to use voice
commands if at all possible switch you
can put two hands on the gun almost
looks like he put the gun on himself
there now then when this guy goes out
here you got to recognize he may run off
but he may be coming back with bad stuff
so you better be prepared for that I
think the owner was here but I don't
know about this other person I don't
know if it's an employee or if it's a
customer or whatever who's gonna come
out and say hey what's going on man
what's this guy doing so then all of a
sudden he gets a gun pointed at him
but thankfully everybody ran away from
this fight and I think that's really
really wise hunkered down in a good
defensive position that if he comes in
you can get the drop back on him you
don't have to respond to his taunts and
I think that the owner did a great job
of that here instead hunkered down in a
good defensive position that you can see
him coming in before he's able to see
you if he does come in with that gun
then you are in a better position I
certainly think that would be okay
especially you know he's got a rifle
you've got a pistol you got to have a
positional advantage in that sense in
order to get ahead but he didn't come in
and so he got the heck out of there so
let the cops catch him get him on the
video and all that stuff I think is the
better way so let's think about
significant lessons out of this one
about not intimidating people when you
draw a firearm sometimes they don't
about the importance of verbal judo and
its ability to just keep us out of
fights for a couple of bucks and about
using deadly force in a possible manner
but in a responsible manner to cover our
ass