when someone threatens you with a weapon
it is not time for heroics it is time
for self-defense
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hi friends welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection i'm your
host as always john korea today we
actually have three videos all from sao
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this was already in progress when the
video starts this guy who is in the
white t-shirt has his tablet in his hand
he's been accosted by two dudes with
guns who tell him that they want his
tablet so he runs off but he's not able
to run off fast enough so you're gonna
see the other guy catch him hit him in
the head with his gun there then it
actually fell out of his hand the tablet
and the dude with the gun a gun actually
fell out of his hand as well
they are then going to swing at him a
couple more times he runs off and they
did grab his tablet and ran off with it
cops are still looking for them in the
second one that we have here we actually
have audio this is a guy that in that
truck that's delivering packages and
this dude's gonna walk up and want to
have some of his packages let's listen
in
thank you
what do you want
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in this third one that i have sped up
just for the sake of time this woman is
gonna fill this shopping cart full of
stuff at the local pharmacy and
literally when she's tired of filling it
up she's then going to walk out without
paying for it and get in her car well
there's a security guard at the store
who is then going to get a point the
master yelling at him which makes them
stop and so he's going to jerk the door
open and grab that bag that basket full
of stuff from her when she pulls a knife
on him or some kind of sharp object what
the the um thing says well he goes to
the back of the car gets their license
plate number and then they eventually
are going to drive off and cops are
still looking for him
all right i got a question for you out
of this one do you think that having a
firearm on your person you would have
responded with gunfire or is getting out
of the area the best bet let's think
about it in the lessons so on this first
one i really want to emphasize that
people say oh wait a minute if you know
i'll just run away or stay away or
nobody's going to get inside my space
and i don't have to learn those empty
handed skills or whatever but recognize
you may not be fast enough to run away
from from your attacker they get a vote
in that as well and this guy wants to
get away now had he been armed at this
point he might have been able to get his
own firearm out this is houston texas
for gracious sakes houston you guys are
texans you have constitutional carry you
should be carrying firearms as good
saints sober moral prudent people now i
also want to notice that our perp here
hits him whacks him upside the head and
look at how he's holding that gun the
way he's holding that gun tells me he
doesn't know anything about using it i'm
not totally convinced it's real but of
course anytime anyone draws a gun on you
points a gun at you threatens you with a
gun i would trust them that it's real
but the way this guy is holding this he
really has no idea how to actually use
it as a firearm and what we see
generally somebody hits you in the head
with a firearm it generally means what
we generally see is they are much less
likely to use it as a ballistic tool if
they use it as a bludgeoning tool and
that's a very good thing now that said
him bludgeoning with it knocks our
victim to the ground and so this is why
i think some empty-handed skills are
very important getting on the mat doing
some sparring gaining the emotional
fitness that says oh okay i just got
whacked upside the head but it's okay
i'm okay i think it's very important i
can stay in the fight because this guy
got his bell rung big time and he just
ends up falling to the ground now of
course knocked the gun out of that perps
hand as well so they're gonna get after
him a little bit more but he's already
dumped his tablet they got what they
wanted so our our victim here got the
heck out of the danger zone and i think
that was a very good solution now of
course would have been better if he was
armed himself and smoked these guys
now let's think about our delivery
driver here pretty harrowing you know of
course he's just delivering it's later
on it's night time he's got all this
stuff and so so our per peer sees oh
there's some valuable items not knowing
what's in those boxes but whatever and
his introduction is to go and smack that
guy right upside the head this is where
emotional fitness comes becomes very
important to be able to say wait a
minute some guy just hit me in the head
i've i gotta flip this switch and go
into self-defense mode not knowing the
who the what and the why i just gotta
know oh wait a minute i'm in a fight
right now and i'm going to fight like
i'm in a fight right now and that
ability to do that only comes when we're
actually on the mats i don't think he
would have done anything else or he's
worried about his job or whatever he's
not worried about you know keeping his
head on a swivel so you gotta have the
empty handed skill set because otherwise
you're not gonna be able to do anything
now this bad guy has a gun and pointed a
gun at him and we're gonna see that here
in just a moment so as soon as he's able
to get some distance here i actually
think our victim does a pretty good job
of getting around the car and getting
away from the guy here you can see he's
pointing a gun at him but i think using
the car as cover was a very good idea it
gave him some opportunity to gain some
distance and some perspective of course
if our victim here was armed this was
his opportunity to draw his gun i want
you to recognize if he had tried to draw
a gun while the guy was beating on him
with his gun high likelihood he gets
shot in that particular case or loses
his gun he has to have positional
dominance and he doesn't until this
point when he gets around that cover
now's the time to draw your own gun and
become the hunter and not the rabbit but
that's you know again a high it kind of
advanced thing that most people don't
have and particularly here he didn't
have last bit i would really say out of
this is he asked the guy what do you
want what do you want guy says i want
the packages fine man take the packages
okay great but then our driver kind of
hangs with him and stays there and then
goes to his truck to get some stuff i
would strongly recommend against that i
would recommend that you run as hard as
you can get out of the danger zone let
that guy get the heck out of there and
get on the phone with 9-1-1 would have
been a better thing
now let's talk about smart here from the
security guard's perspective you know in
some places in in california
particularly stealing this much stuff
wouldn't even be a crime so you wouldn't
be able to do anything in the universe
about it but she gets in the car okay
cool the security guard comes in and
starts barking at her and opening the
door now is it morally acceptable for
him to stop her from robbing that store
i think the answer to that is an
unqualified yes it's absolutely morally
acceptable to stop someone from stealing
your property now of course count
argument is it's not his property that
said he has paid to protect that
property that is his moral obligation as
the employee and that is his role as a
security guard and it's perfectly
acceptable to use you know a necessary
physical force to do that so opening the
door totally fine grabbing the uh you
know cart full of products great however
when she waves a knife at him in this
particular case everything changes it's
his life that's now at risk so backing
out of their very wise i do think he
made one significant mistake and he
makes it right here he goes to get the
license plate number i understand that
he wants that license plate number
because it's an identifier to to be able
to do an investigation that said man if
that driver spooks puts it in reverse
can run him over so fast so he put
himself at risk of death or great bodily
harm by doing so so don't actually get
behind the vehicle if you can read it
from the side but don't put yourself in
a place where they can run you over in
the car i think that it's okay what he
did i think getting the the uh you know
cart full of stuff was great or the the
basket full of stuff was was great i
think not trying to stop them from
leaving was probably great as well
probably juice ain't worth the squeeze
specifically because she has a sharp
blade in her hand of one kind or another
certain lessons on this one and do the
smart things as we seek to cover our asp