it's totally morally okay to stop
someone stealing from you but using
deadly force let's talk about it
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hi everyone welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection i'm your
host john korea this one comes to us
from san antonio texas and it's a pretty
nuanced video i use throom targets on
the range for all the benefits of steel
with none of the drawbacks they're made
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your shooting more fun and effective
news stories that i have linked in the
description say that this burglar has
been in this complex multiple times and
uh he has stolen things including things
out of the home of our defender here and
this man and his girlfriend come home
and see this guy stealing out of one of
their neighbor's house so our dude goes
and gets his shotgun that he uses to
defend the homestead sees this guy with
the television in hand points a shotgun
at him and the dude decides oh okay no i
i don't want to eat a load of buckshot
for this guy's tv and so then our
defender
puts him down in the grass there and
gets him to give up and the guy is going
to lay down and they held him there for
the cops
one more time i think it's pretty
interesting to see he comes out with the
shotgun held high guy's like no okay i'm
gonna put the gun the tv down nice i
think it's funny he didn't even like
drop the tv and break it he put it down
real nice and then laid down in the
grass and was like oh this uh this
shotgun is is fairly persuasive that
this is not what i want to do and then
they held him there for the cops if you
go watch the news story that they did on
this guy i want you to notice a couple
of things that he said he had been
thinking about this time for a long time
and that he was very ready well we're
going to think about lessons on this one
i think this one bears a lot of
discussion and we talk about in depth
the issues of legal and moral
self-defense on the second channel
active self-protection extra every
friday we post a new john's briefs over
there with usually with attorney terry
johnson to talk about legal and moral
self-defense so go over there link in
the description and check out that
series would you i really like the idea
of having a long gun for home protection
if you possibly can of course you know
you don't worry about portability or
concealment with home defense and so
having the additional capabilities of a
long gun over a handgun i think is very
very wise i also think it's morally
acceptable to stop people stealing from
yourself and it's even morally i think
laudable to help your neighbors and to
keep their stuff safe and i think that's
all good we got to make sure that we
understand what we're doing here though
because we don't use deadly force to
protect property we use deadly force to
protect our lives so as this one kind of
gets going notice dude comes out and i
want to note a couple of things notice
that our defender here number one i
think is practicing good trigger
discipline his finger is high and in
register number two though he is
pointing that shotgun at somebody that
he's not identified as a deadly threat i
would strongly encourage you to work on
your movement positions to work on
either a high ready a low ready a you
know a short stock to carry position
we'd talk about that stuff on active
cell protection extra so that you're not
pointing a gun at that which you are not
ready to shoot right now so then he gets
the gun up and points it at him now now
again we've got to be very careful here
we're using the gun to protect ourselves
not to protect the property we're not
using the firearm to to uh stop the
thief we're using the firearm in case
the thief decides that he wants to have
a fight and he uh you know has a weapon
on him or whatever if we have not
articulated we cannot see that the thief
actually means us deadly harm we want to
be very cautious of this and even in the
great state of texas where this one
comes out of remember texas penal code
9.42 only authorizes the use of deadly
force to protect property uh for to
protect against theft in the night time
and that does not apply in this
particular case and most everywhere else
in the country if you actually shot this
guy
who has both hands full of television
you would be in real trouble and so i'm
okay with maintaining a firearm here to
protect yourself and going out even and
stopping that guy with a gun at a low
ready or something like that i think is
okay i would be very cautious pointing
though because in many places the
pointing of a firearm is considered the
use of deadly force and therefore that
could be problematic for us now guy puts
the stuff down i think that's great and
and now our uh our homeowner here our
our defender is now holding this guy i
want to be very cautious with holding
somebody for the police i think it can
be done and at times maybe you're going
to have to do that but i think that one
of the things you got to worry about is
if the guy just put the tv down and then
ran off let him go just let him go get a
good description and get the police over
there okay you don't want to chase him
down you don't want to shoot him in the
back when he's running away and you know
any of those things number two i think
it's very important that what we do here
is we maintain our distance you have a
distance tool of firearms so again i
think our defender did a good job here
if the guy decides to get down great go
face down in the grass put your nose in
the dirt put your hands out to your
sides turn your palms up and cross your
feet that would be my strong suggestion
here and then you stay at distance in an
advantageous place that you can see him
and he can't see you and again i want to
be very cautious here though because in
particularly he could not use deadly
force i don't see any objective evidence
that the guy actually represents a
deadly threat he's not in his home right
now so i can't assume that he's a home
invader and has uh you know means me
deadly harm and therefore we have to be
cautious i think this homeowner and this
defender did a good job i think that you
know again i'm okay with him having a
firearm i'm okay with him bringing it
out there to protect himself in case the
guy actually was a deadly threat i do
think we want to be very cautious
pointing a firearm and we want to be
very cautious how we take someone and
hold them and detain them for the police
as we are waiting so let's learn those
lessons good job here of of using the
gun to protect himself and not shooting
this guy i think our homeowner covered
his asp