in a deadly force encounter the first
one to get an anatomically significant
hit almost always wins
welcome to today's active
self-protection lesson I'm your host
John Correa today's video comes to us
from cuiabá in Brazil after thorough
testing I recently changed my everyday
OC spray to Palm personal defense spray
it's nasty stuff and I recommend it
highly we've got two angles on this one
we could see from behind this Hilux as
the guy is sitting in his car you're
gonna watch this guy walk across the
street and when he feels the timing his
ride he's actually going to draw a big
old revolver and start tapping on the
glass in a carjacking attempt so is like
hey bro let me in
but guys doors locks hey man let me in
and watch you let me in your car and I'm
just here in just a second it's putting
a gun at him a bunch the guy's gonna
finally open the door and when he does
surprise he has a handgun of his own
shoots the guy in the face now we see it
from the other angle here as well as he
is going to come up and tap on the glass
and I'm not sure we can't see inside the
car what our good guy is doing in this
moment just kind of maybe flabbergasted
that this is going on getting his gun
out and ready and bang it bang and gonna
see that guy run off legend has it that
he's still running to this day actually
the little bit of information that I've
been able to glean says that guy did not
make it though I am NOT a hundred
percent positive of that
now our good guys gonna look around see
if there's any accomplices or any of
that stuff get himself back in his car
in his Hilux notice he's the only car on
the street that's anywhere around as
well and he's gonna drive off and the
good guy got out of this one unscathed
and that's where it ends as the old
saying says smoke him if you got him do
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the lessons so I think it's certainly
worth noting that this guy is the only
guy an only car on the street that makes
you a maybe an appealing target but a
couple of interesting things here number
one your car is a transitional space
when it is stopped it is itself a
valuable item obviously tens of
thousands of dollars in a vehicle and so
it is a target for thieves and
carjackers now the second thing here is
that if you are in a transitional space
we say you've got to be paying attention
so many of us when we're sitting in our
vehicle when it stopped we're paying
attention insider
usually on our mobile devices however I
want you to see what's going on on all
sides of your vehicle it's got mirrors
and all those things because paying
attention buys you time and time buys
you options now when this guy rolls up
he is gonna decide to launch the attack
from that place of ambush and that's
part of the transitional space thing
this guy just looks like he's walking
down the street looks like he's just
kind of a normal guy going about his
business until he chooses to launch the
attack as the good person you were
always going to be on an initiative
deficit unless you have pre-staged
things and pre decided what's going to
go on which is why we say if you have
your firearm make sure that you don't
put it inside the glove box locked up
make sure that it stays on your person
and ready to go
so then that way you can get to it in
the moment when you need it because the
bad guy gets the initiative of launching
the attack first thing the next thing
actually that the good guy did very very
right is he locked his doors I can't
believe how often I see people that they
get in a carjacking and their doors are
wide open bad guy Yanks the door open
before the good guys ready to defend
himself you get in the car lock the
doors I get it that when you shut the
car off a lot of cars are preset to
unlock the doors or when you put the car
in park you can change those in your
settings and your owner's manual will
show you how to do that if you are
sitting in your car the doors should be
locked 100% of the time and that saved
this guy an awful lot of grief now then
he's got to get everything together here
and get to his firearm or whatever and I
don't know what he's doing in this
moment however I do want to say that the
second that he opened the door that he
was at risk as well that he puts himself
at additional risk as it seemed the guy
couldn't see him and then he got that
gun up and got a very significant hit on
this guy obviously from just a foot or
two he puts one in his face now that
said you got to recognize it's not an
easy thing to get yourself contorted
into a good firing position while in
your car so I can't tell you enough I
would recommend a good class on using a
firearm in a vehicle it's not as simple
as you think if you've never done it
before and that's gonna get this guy to
run off now as we're gonna see that from
the other angle here I do want to
recognize that there's literally no
other cars sitting on this street if you
were sitting in an abandoned area like
this or it doesn't look abandoned I mean
it looks like what's well manicured but
there are no other cars around I don't
know why he's sitting here in his
vehicle but that by itself kind of gave
me the creeps now could have been he
just parked over
there because he was looking for a quiet
place in order to do some paperwork in
his car or something like that but
recognize that when you're in an
isolated area like this that even more
put you in a spot that if somebody's
walking up and buy you that they can
definitely you know isolate you in order
to attack so you got to pay attention in
those transitional spaces friends know
okay he's gonna get the gun out and all
that stuff another thing I want to say
here is he didn't have to let him open
the doors and there was no need for him
to open the door or whatever in order to
shoot that guy in the face he could very
easily have shot him right through the
glass and been totally justified to do
so now I get it that you might say but
John if he did that now he's got to
replace the glass it costs him money and
all those things that's true however
opening the door put him at additional
risk opening the door to the bad guy
gave the bad guy an opportunity to see
what was going on before the shots fired
instead they'd had just put one right
through the glass on the guy the first
inclination that he would have had
something wrong was when he had a bullet
in him and that's gonna use every
advantage that you have and so I
recommend that again if you have to
shoot understand what what car glass
does through the windshield it deflects
the bullet an awful lot more through the
side glass though now I love that our
good guy here looks around he breaks
this tunnel vision looks for additional
accomplices to see if he's safe and then
he gets the heck out of the area so in
an overall sense this good guy did what
he needed to do a he had his firearm on
him can't tell you how much important
that is as well keep your tools on your
person be he was paying attention to his
world see his doors were locked and D he
got out of there as soon as he could
after the threat ended this guy did a
fantastic job he covered his ass
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