some armed robberies give us a good
opportunity for a counter ambush and
some don't
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here at active self protection i'm your
host john korea we have two videos today
one from houston texas and one from
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in this first one you see the guy come
in chamber is gone to let everybody know
he's got it and start telling the
customer now you come this way a little
bit too so now you're gonna see him
point the gun at the clerk put it under
the little dish there and the clerk
starts emptying out the till so he puts
the gun in his non-dominant hand starts
taking money out of the till and gets
enough in his pockets that he is then
going to go get back in the work van
that i doubt he was actually using for
work and then get in the car and drive
off the plates on it were stolen now
this next one is from kigali rwanda and
so you see the three guys on the
motorcycle drive past they're gonna
actually turn back around of course we
don't get to see that part on camera but
now watch what happens is they the
rider is gonna drop off his two
passengers now watch how kind of
nonchalant they are about this so
they're going to kind of get off and the
guy on the very back is actually going
to limp around a little bit and then
you're going to see him kind of take a
button hook in and the guy that was in
the middle decides to pull a firearm and
announce a robbery so now the guy that
was on the back with a little bit of red
you know hanging out from beneath his
jacket is going to then just shake
everybody down and take all of their
stuff while the guy with the gun takes
about two steps back and just sits a
couple of paces back from everyone they
are going to grab everybody's stuff and
then mosey out their way as well and in
the lessons today we're going to see in
each of these what is counter ambush
opportunities and when is not good
counter ambush opportunities let's think
about it man a lot of lessons to learn
from both of these if you want to
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rwanda of course the first thing that we
see here is three guys on a moto and i
know if you watch the channel for any
length of time you know that in central
and south america in the caribbean if
you put three guys on a moto two guys on
a moto that is a prelude to an armed
robbery no question about it however
that is very geographically dependent i
have been in rwanda and in rwanda three
people on a moto is absolutely normal i
have seen seven people on a jury rigged
hundred cc moto it happens all the time
so knowing your pre-attack indicators
means you've got to know your area
because three guys rolling by animoto
just wouldn't even give you the time of
day in rwanda because it's so common and
and so because of that that's not gonna
trip any wires or anything like that now
as we slow down here and kind of think
about what's going on recognize that the
attacker always gets to set the time and
the place of the attack and so they are
going to be the one who is on offense
which is why we call ourselves
self-defenders because we're not on
offense we're on defense now of course
our bad guy decides to chamber around
and and use that as announcing the
attack so so recognize when that happens
purposeful compliance is absolutely your
way so so one of the keys to surviving
an armed robbery is utilizing purposeful
compliance
because if somebody tries to draw a gun
here and defend themselves not that
that's really possible in rwanda but you
know given anywhere else that you are or
whatever that is going to be a gun fight
that you're probably gonna have a very
hard time winning so purposeful
compliance all right man i'll give you
what i want wherever and also notice
here that our gunman has maintained
significant space so so nobody that's
that's being victimized here can do
anything now this person that's back
here which might be a kid so i'm saying
not saying that's the case but if you're
a third party person who does not have
any attention on you you might be able
to launch a counter ambush in that
moment that's probably the only person
who could and of course recognize that
the person on the motorcycle is also
involved he's the the driver so we have
a go man we have a gun man we have a
grab man here and this is a pretty well
trained crew and when they maintain that
much space when your gunman maintains
that much space you're probably not
going to be able to counter
counter-ambush him until he turns his
attention away from you if you have a
firearm of your own on your person you
can probably do that in that case but if
you don't and he
takes that much space from you it's
probably nothing you're going to do
compliance is probably your best
strategy in that point see if you can
give him your phone give him your wallet
give him your car keys and see if he'll
go away
now this next one we see this same thing
if our you know whether it's a clerk now
if the clerk decides to try to pull a
gun right here he's going to get shot
even at this point if our bystander
decides to pull a gun because of you
know the the fact of the matter is that
it's going to take him a second to
orient on that just a brief split second
this is a bad time instead we use
purposeful compliance to get ourselves
to an advantage where we can launch a
counter ambush that more effectively
defends ourselves than any of these
other opportunities right now i will say
this if our bystander here has a rocket
fast draw the first shot he might be
able to do that but maybe i think is a
better choice in this particular
instance is a little purposeful
compliance which is exactly what our
bystander does okay man no problem he
starts kind of inching towards the door
of course guy doesn't want him to inch
towards the door and i want to think
about there's your first opportunity to
counter ambush now we always say on the
channel what we see is that if you have
a 1.5 second draw the first shot and the
guy shows you his ear like the bad guy
has shown the bystander his ear right
here you can get a gun out in the fight
and get a shot in this guy before he can
do anything about it and that's exactly
what we see here time and time again so
if your draw the first shot is not 1.5
or faster don't try it here because you
see here
about a second later he turns his head
back now it would take our bad guy about
about a half second to orient to the
fact that oh no this guy's drawing a gun
bring the gun around and shoot would
take another half second so again if he
has a 1.5 draw the first shot he could
probably out shoot this guy of course
now we're in the midst of a gunfight and
compliance did work in this particular
case so i'm not saying that's a bad
strategy either but i'm saying if you
want to end that threat sooner which i
always think is a good idea as well this
is the way to do that now he's going to
turn away again and turn away more
significantly so so here though notice
what he hasn't done yet is he has not
turned his shoulders and he's gonna have
a hard time doing that so once he turns
his shoulders to us now we have a two
second draw to first shot would actually
get this guy the other thing that i
think is a big deal here is if you wait
for the opportunity here that this guy
shifts the gun from his dominant hand to
his non-dominant hand it's now
non-deliverable you can have even a 2.5
second draw the first shot here and you
are going to beat this guy so so again
when you look for the right opportunity
if you're ready for that opportunity you
absolutely can but of course that means
you have to defend yourself and you have
to be good with your firearm and you
have to know what your capabilities are
not guess but you actually have trained
and you know actually what your actual
requirements are in the clothes you're
wearing with the gun you're wearing at
the time you're wearing in order to do
that otherwise compliance is the best uh
option just like we see here and
thankfully nobody was harmed in either
one of these but i think we did learn
some lessons about when uh to counter
ambush and when not to as we seek to
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