today we get to see another instance of
an armed good guy making a bad guy's
life hard
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your holster needs we have audio from
the surveillance footage on this one as
this clerk is just minding his business
in his store let's listen in
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the clerk hit at least one of them there
was a blood trail leaving the store i
don't have any follow-up information
from there though so if you found out if
they found these guys let me know in the
comments
got em i gotta say what the heck is with
that that little barrier between them
it's certainly not a stop in any bullets
why the heck is it there let's think
about lessons remember it is just a
normal day until it's not this guy's
just chilling on his phone and i get it
it's a boring day in the store but try
not to get immersed in your mobile
device and i say that's goofy i get it
uh you know talking to you probably
through your mobile device now dude
shows him a gun oh okay fine what are
you gonna do you're gonna comply in that
moment even if you've got a gun on your
person remember purposeful compliance is
very important i do think it's worth
noting here as well both of our perps
have guns you got two guys with guns on
you in this moment remember every time
you add an attacker you add an order of
magnitude of difficulty to your task so
when you're talking about am i going to
counter ambush both these guys i know
they both have guns you better get
yourself to a place where you have an
overwhelming initiative advantage in
order to do so i don't think our clerk
really had that here and i think he
really got lucky in a lot of ways that
said you can't count on luck but luck
counts so now as he's continuing to
think about what he's going to do we
know that he's got a gun under the
counter in this particular case and he's
going to decide to go for that so he's
getting all the money out purposeful
compliance is a very good thing but i
want you to notice this is where our
clerk is deciding okay i'm gonna go for
the gun notice that that guy has got the
drop on him a hundred percent now
normally of course i would say never do
this this is a bad idea this is a very
low percentage play that he's made that
said he does have a bit of an ability to
gain initiative advantage here because
the gun is under the counter and he's
getting stuff for these guys so he is
able to get the gun in obscurity so i
think he can defeat the drop a little
bit here but i think it's a very low
percentage play and i don't think i
would recommend that you make it now
watch what he does here is he is going
to pull this gun out from under the
counter and one of the reasons he's
going to have a hard time here is he has
to rack the slide so he's actually got
the gun in his left hand even though
he's right-handed and he's using his
right hand in order to put a round in
the chamber that kind of stuff is the
kind of delays that might cost you your
life and and again the only reason that
worked is these guys didn't notice it
cognitively and weren't didn't have the
time to react before he was able to get
the first shot off and again the person
who gets the first anatomically
significant hit in the other guy is
almost always who wins the gunfight and
so that gun is is right now stage or was
staged for defense and we you know rule
number three of firearm safety is that
we always keep firearms unloaded until
they're in use however a gun being used
to defend the store should be loaded
then because it's in use defending the
store should be in some kind of a
holster that's mounted to that counter
or whatever of course i'd much rather he
have it on his person than have it
underneath the counter now the other
thing i want to notice there is that was
a negligent discharge he had his finger
on the trigger racked this slide real
hard and his finger was was on the
trigger and he caused a negligent
discharge there
now he's just using the gun as a
noisemaker anyways in some significant
capacity but you don't want to waste
rounds like that and you don't know
where that bullet's going this is why we
practice rule number two which is always
keep our finger high and in register
until we made a conscious decision to
fire and rule number one always keep
firearms pointed in the direction at
least consequence which should be
directly at the perps in this particular
case then he's gonna actually transition
the gun into his other hand and start
getting rounds on this guy but i want
you to notice we see another instance
here where this clerk is not trained
well with a handgun and the reason for
that is he got got the gun finally put
in his dominant hand but he's taken his
non-dominant hand and grabbed his wrist
and and that's like i don't know like
like turn of the 20th century technique
or maybe even before that and so he's
clearly not trained with a firearm at
all and if you're gonna have a firearm
you know in your vicinity used to defend
your business or whatever you need to
know how to use that firearm now that
said even though he's untrained it was
effective he drove these guys off okay
take appropriate follow-up actions
remember they've driven off okay fine
remember tap ifs right first t is threat
did i hit him is he down do i need to
shoot him again a his accomplices does
anybody else need to get shot here p
this guy doesn't have any partners we
don't worry about that i am i injured is
he all right do do i have any injuries
do i need to do any first aid to myself
f what's the condition of my firearm is
it in good working order still do i need
to reload it the second f is follow-up
actions what do i need to do to make
myself safer maybe he needs to you know
lock the door here or whatever and then
s seek help call it in and get some help
on the way so this one was kind of a
mess but it was a mess that worked good
guys won bad guy zero he covered his asp
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