sometimes an indomitable spirit and a
little bit of luck is enough welcome to
today's active self-protection lesson
I'm your host John Korea active
self-protection exists to educate good
people like you to better protect
yourself and your family from criminal
violence today we have two videos one
out of Newport in Wales in the UK and
another I'm not sure where it's from but
I'm positive it's from the United States
that shows us that attitude goes a long
way in self-defense
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first one out of England this dude is
gonna do his best Boondock Saints
impression here and he's going to put on
a ski mask draw and actually a fake gun
announce an armed robbery and
everybody's looking at him like what's
wrong with you and nobody wants to say
boo then the guy is actually gonna get
angry and tried to whack this purveyor
of the store with the gun who just you
know swaps it away that's gonna cause a
kid to run off go read the news story in
the description they they caught him he
actually turned himself in and he's
doing four years for this one now this
next one did some more research actually
ended up being in Kentucky and so what
you see here is it's about 1 o'clock in
the morning and the lady who is the
clerk on duty what we're gonna see here
is the guy comes in the audio is
important here so let's listen in
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Oh
for you
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don't walk out
yeah
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walk out you'll get me care
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now he's walked off and I want you to
pay attention on the right hand side
look you know you're like oh she's on
the phone with 911 except for she's
having a hard time getting on the phone
with 911 one I don't know if it's not
connecting or if she's having to push
buttons to get to the right you know
person or whatever and and you know
press 1 for this county or press 2 for
emergency services d need an ambulance
press 3 or whatever but she's not on the
phone with anybody yet thankfully her
bad guy has run off he actually went
robbed another store a little while and
cops caught him a little while later and
he's facing a whole bunch of charges
that's where these ones end the adage
says you can't count on luck but
sometimes luck counts if you appreciate
the lessons you get here everyday 2
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a lesson out of today's video I want to
talk about the incredible importance of
an indomitable attitude of self-defense
however I also want to talk about the
difficulty of self-defense against
firearms at any kind of distance and the
importance of getting out of the danger
zone definitively I am very grateful
that most robbers are stupid and that's
what we see in this first one is this
guy again it's a dumb kid and thankfully
this gun was fake but I want to pay
attention to the fact that this guy now
has a gun and and he's got a gun in a
plastic sack now a gun ended up being
fake which I get I guess you could say
well gosh this is in the UK so chances
of you know a random armed robber having
a real firearm are pretty rare however
do you want to bet your life on that do
you want to say definitively well I kind
of think it's probably not real so I'm
going to go ahead and fight him as if it
isn't real that's a great way to get
shot now what are you gonna do in that
moment what's the most important part of
active self-protection its attitude so
again the the store operator here I have
it on good authority from somebody who
knows him is you know he's a little
older and so he's not always in complete
control of his mental faculties but he
gets angry here and again I want you to
notice that the guy pokes him with the
gun and then threatens him with it
notice that his fingers on the trigger
and notice that he has you know got it
right up against his head now if you had
a significant empty handed skillset you
know I know plenty of martial artists
look at that you go I could take that
gun away from him in nothing flat not
really a big deal ok fine and I agree
with you it can be taken away from
however if you don't have a highly
developed skill set probably
not your best bet because when you're
talking about going over a counter here
there's some significant challenges
including the fact that the bad guy gets
to move too so our pensioner here is
going to try to you know take that gun
away from him or at least bat it away
from them and notice that our bad guy
pulls the gun back that that's one of
the things they're going to do then a
lot of gun disarms that I see on the
intertubes it's people standing there
with a gun held out there and then it'll
do anything when the good guy tries to
take the gun away however in real life
what happens particularly over counter
tops like this is that our bad guy acts
as well and if you're not pretty darn
lightning fast he's gonna start
responding and pull pull that gun away
from you but the attitude was enough the
guy you know drove him off with the fact
that he was willing to offer any
resistance at all because the guy was
bluffing he calls his bluff kid runs off
ended up turning himself in okay fine
sometimes that'll work it was a real gun
would it work I don't know now we go
back to this other you know super 8
motel here and we see the clerk and she
has you know she's like look I'm just
not putting up with him it's 1 o'clock
in the morning you know and she's on a
late night shift or whatever and she
sees this guy who walks in and she
greets him now I do want to pay
attention there might be a clue here as
the guy comes in you can just scene see
him pulling up his mask he's pulling up
a bandana over his face and if you're
paying attention which she isn't because
she's looking over to the side my guess
is at a o'clock if she had seen that
maybe she could have done something else
because somebody pulling a bandana over
their face in the middle of summer is
what we might call a clue so he comes up
instead and when she says how can I help
you what do you think how can I help you
when the guy walks in with his hood up
and you know his face covered he pulls a
gun of course and he says gimme you know
give me the money and she just says no
I'm not gonna do that and look at her
attitude look at her body language there
she has her hip kicked out she has her
left leg forward she is absolutely
communicating disdain I'm telling you
friends that's dangerous it worked out
for her in this instance but this is not
a strategy that I recommend because if
this guy gets angry at that that's an
ego challenge he could easily have come
over that counter and hurt her bad now
then she goes under the countertop here
I just don't think that's a great idea
because I don't think that's safe get
definitively out of the danger zone run
off now she's going to grab the phone
and then run into the back room and and
again she doesn't even close the door I
could easily jump the counter and just
absolutely beat the tar out of her
even shoot her here but thankfully it
worked okay because she got a bad guy
who was just looking for a quick score
and wasn't willing to do violence to do
that I see an awful lot of violent
criminal actors who absolutely are
willing to do violence in order to get
what they want so I wouldn't depend on
this and yes it worked sometimes
attitude is enough sometimes just call
on their bluff is enough and she told
him to get out and he did but friends
I'm just gonna tell you even though it
worked in these two instances I don't
recommend this I'd recommend a much
higher level of attitude and skill and
plan because if you run into a bad guy
who is not this easy to dominate you're
gonna have big problems but as we say
success covers a multitude of sins so
these folks who did okay I can't give
him too much of a hard time because they
got out of there without injuries so I
guess they covered their ASP
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