if you're properly armed and ready for
the moment when the bad guy shows up
he's
in a bad place
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so we can see these guys just chilling
while two dudes on a moto ride by and
you guys know what that means if you've
been a fan of active self protection for
a while so they're just chilling and
waiting but you notice there are two
guys on a moto as well because they have
two helmets and one bike there
so they're just chilling a little bit
now watch what happens when these guys
come back around you see the guy about
on the back of the moto jump off and
pull a machete
but one of the dudes has a firearm and
so he's like uh we got trouble
uh guy's gonna grab his machete from him
and his helmet
jump on his bike and eat his machete off
and they take off with the dude's
bike so one more time he jumps out with
the machete guy points a gun at him and
they're like uh we lose that fight so he
gives up the machete
and they run off and give the guys their
bike so it's a reversed
bike jacking and that's where this one
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application to join us so i do think
that
these are culturally conditioned ideas
friends that we make sure that we
understand
that we understand our pre-attack
indicators so two dudes on a moto in
many parts of south america is a
carjacking in progress
is an armed robbery in progress without
question in some countries it's actually
illegal for you guys to ride on a moto
for this very reason now in other places
of the world this would be perfectly
normal but not in south america so the
lesson there
know what is coming in your area know
what the normals are in your area
so then that way you're prepared for
them and these two guys definitely were
next thing that i really see them doing
was is that they were paying attention
so they see the guys go
they recognize that's an indicator of a
problem so they start paying attention
is
are these guys coming after us or are
they going to leave us be so remember
attention buys you time
time buys you options but of course you
know i don't know these guys aren't
necessarily the nicest guys ever either
they don't look like good dudes to me
because they end up stealing those guys
moto
so again recognize that good being a
good saint sober moral person means
you'd probably want to get the heck out
of the danger zone you saw that you'd be
like hey man let's get the heck out of
here
rather than stick around and wait for
them to rob you so that you can rob them
back right
so that's what a good saint sober moral
prudent person would do but now let's
think about from the protection
perspective they come around
and i want to see this is the spot right
here where our dude is going to draw his
gun gets his gun out so he is paying
attention to them sees them come back
and this is the spot from which he is
going to draw his firearm when we talk
about being a self-defender and having a
rapid
draw of your firearm this is the reason
that we do because the more quickly when
you make the decision i need to get a
gun out the more quickly you can get
that gun out the more time you have for
decision making
the more time you have to get ahead of
the bad guy so when you have a two
second draw the first shot
you can't do things that you can do if
you have a one second draw the first
shot
so now he gets a gun out and his time
there was about 1.5 seconds
so because he had that 1.5 seconds the
guy didn't have the time to get off the
moto get his machete all the way out
and close the distance to him which he
might have been another half of a second
or so so
having that fast draw is a big deal now
of course
he's got him beat on the drop if he sees
that machete coming out could he in the
united states legally have shot this guy
yeah probably i mean again knowing that
he's what he knows guys pulling a
machete on me
i fired at him okay fine but i think a
better thing here is that he had a
little bit of time
in order to give commands and he did so
in this instance and because he did so
he ended up not having to shoot somebody
and that's a better outcome for
plain and simple even from a you know
purely personal perspective you're gonna
have much less problems with cops
for stopping a guy by pointing a gun at
him than by actually pressing the
trigger
also notice that the gunman stayed at
distance while his buddy went and
disarmed the guy i think that's a good
point as well that if you have a
distance tool like a firearm you want to
stay at a little bit of distance
so that he can't reach out and grab a
hold of that gun now
i also want to say oh okay fine you know
obviously i don't think it's a good
thing that they decided to steal these
guys motorcycles but there's no honor
among thieves so that's fine
last he decides to eat this guy's
machete and get it the heck out of there
and then take off and didn't want the
guy's machete oh okay fine
i do think there's actually a
self-defense principle here that if
you're not going to use that tool
that one of the things you can do is
just get rid of it just get it
completely out of the encounter and
remove it completely
so that would be with a firearm or
something like that you know you'd uh
drop the magazine jack around out and
toss the gun so then that way it is out
of the fight
if you're not going to use it in this
case with his machete he just you know
throws it to the side or whatever so
i'm not saying they're good people here
but i do think there are still good
self-defense lessons that we can learn
as we seek to cover our asp