priority one win the gunfight priority
two do it without getting injured
hi everybody welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection i'm your
host john korea today's video comes to
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the white convertible has just pulled in
to get something out of his trunk when
you see this guy come in and point a gun
at him and and announce a robbery now
our victim actually has a concealed
carry on him as well he's gonna say hey
man i'm not gonna give you my stuff
whatever but watch now what goes down is
our robber after threatening him a
little while actually shoots him in the
leg and then our our victim here is
gonna actually draw his own concealed
firearm and they're gonna start firing
back and forth at each other
if you go read the news story that i
have linked in the description they
think that the perp was probably hit but
he is uh he has not showed up at any
hospital the uh person in the
convertible the victim actually was hit
seven times including the
chest and the leg um multiple times
there and he is going to make a full
recovery but he was shot multiple times
like i say they're actually still
looking for this perp and uh he didn't
show up at any hospitals with injuries
so i'm guessing that they didn't hit him
let's think about lessons
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love to have you first thing here is
about pre-planning so our guy in a very
nice car decides hey i'm just gonna get
out in the parking lot of this
restaurant it's a fast food restaurant
to you know get my stuff or whatever out
of his trunk okay fine he's carrying his
firearm i think that's a great decision
again though when you're gonna drive a
nice vehicle like this you're gonna make
yourself a more likely target second
thing is you've got to pay attention
particularly in transitional spaces like
parking lots because you're looking for
things that are out of place and what's
out of place here is the guy backing
into his parking spot in a weird way at
the drive-through this is not what you
would expect people to be doing
so again as the guy starts jumping out
of the car with his you know car all
parked okay wampus like that if our dude
is paying attention he at least has an
even shot against this guy so
transitional spaces is a big one making
sure that you understand your
victimization likelihood and risk
driving a nice car parked in a crazy
neighborhood those kinds of things yes
he's carrying his tools but he's not
paying attention and if he paid
attention here he might have had a
better opportunity rather than waiting
until he gets shot
now then dude's gonna jump up and just
start with a pointed gun and and now
look at what happens when our victim
finally sees what's going on so he
doesn't see he's got a gun pointing at
him for about a second second and a half
now what are you going to do well number
one i mean you've got to use purposeful
compliance at this point you've got to
look for your counter ambush at this
point because if he tries to draw the
concealed firearm that he has on his
person here he is going to wind up dead
he's going to get shot a whole lot more
than he did so again purposeful
compliance look for your counter ambush
opportunity and that depends on how fast
you are with a gun
now there is one time where we don't
wait for our counter ambush opportunity
now there's a couple things that i do
want to talk about here is that number
one i want you to notice that this
robber is maintaining distance and at
various times he has two hands on the
gun that's a clue here as well as you're
looking for your opportunity to counter
ambush that hey wait a minute this guy
actually knows what he's doing he's not
getting close to me with the gun he's
not letting me get up on him he's not
giving me any opportunities to you know
to practice the 5ds plus one and disarm
this guy or whatever so he knows what
he's about this is an indicator that
maybe hey man okay fine bro here's my
wallet here's my phone whatever go ahead
and take it and get out of here but we
don't do that so instead what he's gonna
do is is he's gonna use the only time
where we'd say no to waiting your turn
and that's if the guy starts actively
shooting at you as soon as he starts
actively shooting at you you're not
waiting your turn you're in a gunfight
and you're probably going to die so so
now drawing from the drop is off he's
already shooting at you so get your gun
out and go if you have emotional fitness
if you understand hey wait a minute that
that i'm still alive i'm still awake i'm
still in the fight you might be able to
get your gun out fast enough to drive
this guy off and that's exactly what our
victim ended up doing here getting his
gun out quickly enough to get in the
fight
but it does take him forever here to get
his gun out and of course he's in a
seated position so sometimes working on
that seated draw is a thing because he's
already shot now i also want to note
here that i don't think he actually hit
with this shot i think that this is fibs
of that fudge i'm being shot at because
again our perp you know did not show up
at any hospital anywhere in the state
and he certainly would have if he had
been shot at some point so then that way
you know he'd had to get some medical
care so i don't think our victim hit him
but at least the presence of the firearm
drove him off so one of the things we
talked about getting that gun out and
getting a first hit as quickly as we can
but because he didn't get a hit the guy
started shooting at him some more and
you could see that bang bang bang bang
is that he shoots multiple times at our
attacker now here we can see that our
defender is shooting back but he did
miss now i did the math here and did a
measurement on google earth you're
talking at this point about 15 yards so
again having the ability to hit at
shorter distances might prevent you from
having to take shots at significant
distances like our defender had to as
well that said i do want you to know and
people say all the time well you know
john gunfights only happen within three
yards or five yards in private citizen
gunfights that's frankly not true in
this case totally justified continuing
to shoot totally justified at 15 yards
to continue that shooting and even if he
had continued on because the the perp
here is going to circle around at the
fence and he's going to be around 25
yards away when that's the case so once
you're three to seven yard skills are
really strong as a self-defender with
your firearm you want to push that
distance out there quite a bit because
you very well may need it in an actual
real-life private citizen gunfight so so
again i'm not saying that a lot of
gunfights go this far but they certainly
do and you want to get hits at that
distance
now in the end here of course we want to
talk about having your trauma medical on
your person you want to talk about being
able to use that at the time now this
guy is able to speed himself to the
hospital get himself to the care that he
needs and good on him for doing that one
of the reasons to have your first aid
equipment on your person is so that
while you are doing that you might need
to use some gauze you might need to use
a tourniquet you might need to use a
pressure bandage in order to keep as
much blood in you as possible to stay
awake as long as you can to get you to
the help that you need so have the first
aid equipment on your person have your
first aid skills strong as well as for
the perp man listen what your big goal
here is is to get away from them
remember that this is the private
citizens mission is to break contact
with the perp i don't care if the perp
goes to prison in that moment quite
frankly i don't care if that perp takes
the room temperature challenge i care
about getting away from him so in that i
think our victim did okay our defender
made it out to fight another day i
wouldn't really call this one a win
though so let's make sure that we're
paying attention in our surroundings
that we have a fast and accurate draw to
first shot so that we put ourselves at
minimum risk as we cover our asp
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