oftentimes the mere presence of a
firearm is enough to get an armed robber
to skedaddle
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hi everyone welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection i am your
host john korea today's video comes to
us from san bruno california
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california is very restrictive for
issuance of ccw but the guy on the left
there in the suit is the owner of this
jewelry shop and he is a unicorn he is a
san mateo county resident who has a ccw
and is legally carrying his firearm so
when this guy comes and starts attacking
with a crowbar his shop our owner comes
over and says hey man stop that whatever
well the guy threatens him and says i'm
going to hit you with this crowbar so he
pulls his firearm when we notice he's
got two accomplices there one of whom
drew a firearm and started pointing it
at our owner but thought better of his
ways they all ran off in that particular
instance and
again i think to the best of my
knowledge police have not caught any of
these perps this owner did not fire a
shot but we're gonna think about lessons
from his defensive firearms use
i think he did a pretty darn fine job
and i got a question for you out of
today's video does it surprise you that
a shop owner in california would be
carrying a firearm doesn't surprise me
at all but i'm wondering about you first
thing here carry your firearm if at all
possible i think it's a travesty that in
any place in america that a citizen who
is a good saint sober moral prudent
person can't carry a firearm without
government permission slips we're up to
24 states that have constitutional carry
now i hope that continues and and the
idea of having to show cause i think is
ludicrous because all people have the
need for self-defense and i think that
they should have that so this guy is
carrying his firearm he was granted a
ccw probably because he owns a jewelry
shop who's been robbed or something like
that okay fine carry your stinking gun
and know how and when to use it i love
these just kind of chilling out in the
mall talking with these guys whatever
and this guy just runs in and and
smashes this guy's case now what are you
gonna do you notice here that our owner
is already reaching for his firearm he
is starting and saying right now yeah
it's probably time for me to grab a gun
somebody who is coming into my jewelry
store
with a crowbar smashing up stuff that's
an armed robbery right so that's a
violent forcible felony and and i think
it's justified anywhere to stop with
deadly force but i actually really like
what our owner does here is that he kind
of goes wait a minute what can i do now
i don't think it was necessarily wise
for him to charge in on this guy and put
hands on him because dude's got a
crowbar right
and so instead he backs up here but
notice that he has not necessarily seen
the trailing accomplice always assume
that there are multiple attackers so i
love that he got some distance i love
that he goes and gets his firearm
against this guy with a crowbar
definitive advantage but notice that the
bad guy to the left that we highlighted
a second ago is already drawing his
firearm as well and and again there's
going to be a time where if you go wait
a minute i'm going to get my firearm out
you got to be fast because the faster
you are the more you can get ahead and
you got to be able to pay attention very
easy to get tunnel vision on the first
guy when the second guy is actually a
bigger threat here in the moment notice
as well i think this is really good that
our owner has drawn to what we call a
low ready or a presentation position
actually i think his presentation here
is maybe a little bit low but he's not
got the gun up and in his eyesight so he
can see a little bit better so we're
drawing to a ready position this is
exactly what we're talking about and why
it's valuable because now you can see
the hands and the waist of everyone
around now notice that the perp there
who actually drew the firearm doesn't
have it up either but in this moment
guys this is going to be a an absolute
horse race who can get the gun up on
target and get a hit more quickly
so yes working from a low ready position
like this or even having that gun up a
little bit higher so not down at maybe a
45 degrees but up maybe at a 30 degree
or something like that gives you a
little bit more speed for when this this
moment when speed is absolute life and
thankfully in this moment the robber
decided no i don't want to have a
gunfight with this guy i didn't sign up
for that i just wanted to use it as a
you know a intimidation tool okay fine
and well and good but recognize that may
not always be the case you better be
able to get up and get a hit on target
very very quickly thankfully they ran
off in the moment and okay fine now
let's think about this idea of our
follow-ups from here once the gunfight
is over we start our follow-up with the
acronym top ifs remember that's that we
use that acronym just to keep us
thinking and we gotta internalize it so
that we can find out where we are on the
road map do the next thing that we need
to t is for threat is he down did i hit
him do i need to shoot him again in this
case no a is accomplices did he bring
any buddies to the fight yes he did what
happened to them where are they am i
safe p is my partner okay this guy was
talking to somebody what happened to
that guy i and now so that's tap if
starts with i injuries am i hurt do i
need to do something about that
f is my firearm in working condition do
i need to reload it do i need to clear
my function out of it is it okay then
the next f appropriate follow-ups what
do i need to do to follow up
successfully and i think standing out in
the middle of the mall is probably not
the best idea and then s seek help call
it in win the fight to 9-1-1 get on the
phone with emergency services and get
some help and get the cavalry coming
your way i think this owner's gun fight
quite frankly was just about perfect
really a perfect defensive gun use
that's never going to make it in any
statistics because nobody was shot no
shots were fired but having his firearm
being ready to use it using it
effectively did well and he covered his
asp
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