using your car effectively means more
than paying attention it also means good
driving skills welcome to today's active
self-protection lesson I'm your host
John Correa today's video comes to us
from Mexico City in Mexico Liberty safes
is America's number one safe
manufacturer with advanced features a
lifetime warranty and actual fire tested
fire ratings they're who I trust not
only to secure my firearms but also my
valuables check them out in the link in
the description if you go watch the
interview that I did with Alejandra on
this one on active self-protection
extra it's Friday nights 9:30 and he is
headed for a party with some friends he
is a hundred percent stone-cold sober
here but he is going down a way that
Google and Waze tells everybody to go
but it's totally normal everything is
just fine now this isn't a bad area of
town at all you could see there's some
people out walking and what we have here
is he has a dash cam that has both front
and back cameras and he's driving a very
nice car in fact a brand new BMW so
maybe that's part of the issue we do
have some audio here when the bad guys
come up they're off-camera cuz they're
on the drivers side but let's listen in
thankfully Alejandra put it in reverse
and was able to do a little bit of
defensive driving and then hit the side
streets and get away from these guys
that's where it ends he did a pretty
good job of getting the heck out of the
danger zone on this one listen I know
it's a tough time everyone and we're all
scraping and trying to get by but do me
a favor reach out in your community
that's what I really want you to do
today as an active self protector is to
reach out into your community and help
somebody who's really on the verge and
in particular those who are struggling
with mental health crises right now so
check in on your loved ones checking on
those you haven't heard from in a while
give a phone call do some FaceTime and
make sure that the people in your life
that are maybe struggling with some
anxiety and some depression have a
helping hand and somebody who cares for
them you could save a life if you do
let's think about lessons today our big
first lesson here is that everything is
normal until right when it's not because
the bad guy is the one who gets to
at the timing of the attack and as the
self defender you are always on defense
on these things a couple of other things
that I think are really important from
my interview with Alejandro number one
he was stone-cold sober so he had his
wits about him and could think and I
think that's so important specifically
being on the road of course because I
don't want people drinking and driving
because of the consequences of drinking
and driving not just certainly not
primarily for the you know defensive
posture now the only time you could have
seen these guys is right here you see
our bad guys are actually lounging
around here and and just chillin now you
got asked the question is something out
of order when you were paying attention
to your world now people walking down
the road is that a normal thing yes it
is is somebody just hanging out in the
middle of a sidewalk on a Friday night
at 9:30 in an urban area a normal thing
yes it also is so I don't know that you
could have seen this one coming and the
bad guy always gets to set the timing of
the attack but they're sitting here
almost certainly waiting for a car they
like and the BMW that Alejandro is
driving is a car that they like so
they're gonna go after that particular
one now then when did they pick an
opportunity to get after him well you
could see there's just there they
decided now we're gonna go get him and
they chose the opportunity when the car
stopped I said this a thousand times on
the channel when a car is stopped it
becomes a transitional space so make
sure that your doors are locked and his
doors are locked in auto lock which is a
really important but also you've got to
make sure that when your car does get
stopped you got to think about do I have
any egress lanes here or am I stuck
there will be times you're stuck look at
all the cars parked on the roadside and
those kind of things
thankfully he had an open spot behind
him but when the attacks start you heard
him you know real quick they run up and
they but it you know they bashed the
windows of his car with their firearm
and he had to think oh no what am I
going to do if you look ahead he can't
go ahead he said he thought about going
up on the sidewalk but he didn't know
how big that was and so it took him
about three or four seconds to look
around him and say where's my Avenue of
escape
I will say that sometimes the backwards
is the best way to go so knowing what's
in your rearview mirror is important if
he didn't have that guys then the only
way he's gonna resist these guys as if
he's armed himself and in Mexico that's
very very difficult so having some outs
is important and knowing when the
vulnerability times in your vehicle is
important so he did think about it
though and say oh okay I do
opened behind me hit the reverse and
rock-and-roll and I really do want to
think about having defensive driving
skills now I do want to notice here as
well that our bad guy you can see the
one that's farthest to the left you
could see the flash of his revolver in
his right hand so yes this is exactly
what happened these guys came up with
two guns and knocked on the window and
then we're driving off you know so again
they wanted his car they wanted to rob
him of his stuff thankfully he was able
to get away defensive driving skills man
I think that's an underutilized and
under taught position that we have here
at active self-protection that you
should be able to drive your car well at
speed and maybe a defensive driving
class is in order after your handgun
skills are high we see an awful lot of
carjackings an awful lot of stuff like
this go down so having the skills to
avoid it I think is good all the hundred
did a good job on this one you paid
attention he thought through the problem
he got himself out of there and covered
his ass