in today's video we're gonna get to see
the defensive use of a firearm that in
some places is perfectly okay and in
other places will get you sent to prison
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hi everybody welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection i'm your
host
john korea today's video comes to us
from san francisco california
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gonna see an argument developed here
it's in the right side of the screen
between the guy in the blue shirt and a
guy with his face blocked out the person
who shared this blocked out his face
because the guy with the blocked out
faces are perp but he hasn't been
charged with a crime so they left his
face out and they're arguing because
the guy in the black said that the guy
in the blue had looked at him funny a
block away and so then he shoves him
here
now the owner of the restaurant that
they're outside of comes over and says
to the guy hey man that's enough
and he's gonna pull his shirt up there
and show that he actually has a firearm
i think he's the only ccw holder in san
francisco county
but that's enough the dude is gonna walk
off let's watch it one more time as
they're arguing because again the guy
says hey
you looked at me funny and gave me the
stink eye and our victim here's like nah
man i'm not having that whatever you can
see his body language he's not about
that
and the guy's lady is like hey let's get
out of here whatever but when he's not
giving him what he wants the guy
is going to push on him now let's think
about it from the perspective of
our a restaurant owner you see here he's
going to pull his shirt up and show his
gun and tell the guy to pack sand
thankfully the guy does we're going to
think about a lot of lessons today
all right before we get any further on
the lessons what do you think about this
one leave me a comment and let me know
defensive display that's totally okay or
brandishing a firearm or aggravated
assault not okay what are your thoughts
first things first we have two different
defender sets here and we've gotta think
through the lessons on both of those so
we're gonna talk about this from the
perspective of the restaurant owner
who's on the far right right now
as well as the guy in the blue shirt
who's just walking my guesses with his
wife or his girlfriend whatever
you know in chinatown okay fine and this
is a thing and
even in san francisco uh you know you
have the right to defend yourself though
i think getting a ccw permit in san
francisco county is
like rarest hence teeth so make your
plans ahead of time carry the best
defensive tools you can but the best
tool you can carry
is your attitude so this guy comes over
and he's all kind of mad because he says
that the guy gave him the stink eye
and so now they're going to have this
talk and you can see he puts his hand
out and he's like hey man you gave me
the stink eye and i'm mad about that
this is where your verbal judah comes in
everybody
this is where you just simply say hey
man didn't mean to do that i apologize
my bad please forgive me didn't mean to
give you the stink i appreciate your
patience with me we'll just get out of
your way how about that
and and just being willing to walk it
off like like don't have an ego contest
with a guy you're never going to see
again in your life it doesn't matter if
he's right and you're wrong
just apologize and move on that makes
your life so much easier
that that verbal judo and remember your
ego
is not your amigo so don't fight for
your ego here
so again instead what we're noticing is
i want to recognize
that that our dude here is standing
there kind of with his chin jutted out
and now he's got to think about you know
not only the threat the guy in the blue
shirt i'm thinking about here has to not
only think about a guy who's getting
verbally aggressive at him but think
about his lady
so so friends hear me tell those who are
non-self-defenders in your world
if there's any kind of brewing
self-defense encounter to get away from
you
tell them that they have a
responsibility not to put themselves in
harm's way which complicates your
problem significantly this guy's lady
here
would have been far better served
ducking into the restaurant or getting
out of there getting on the phone with
cops or whatever if she thinks things
are coming back
make sure that you train and teach those
who won't participate in self-defense
the things that they can do to make your
job easier and to make themselves
more safe instead of staying here like
this because she put herself in danger
here okay
now notice this push comes in and now we
have an assault so that was
absolutely an assault and and okay fine
but at least you know it's not a
punching assault
okay great but now what can we do to
stop an assault we have the right to
defend ourselves
and and the doctrine of proportionality
comes in here so we can use the force
that is necessary
to stop this kind of assault you
certainly couldn't shoot this guy
although i will say that having an oc
spray right here would have been
very useful because it would have been
given the opportunity here to bless the
deserving with the hot sauce and to
diminish him significantly to end the
attack probably could have done that
even sooner if the guy was being
threatening and whatever
now of course let's think about the fact
that our dude here is going to go ahead
and show
the firearm so he is going to brandish
his firearm first of all
i think that finding somebody with a ccw
permit in
uh california and particularly in san
francisco county it's county by county
there
is very very rare secondarily let's
think about
brandishing a firearm or a defensive
display of a firearm and
you make sure that you check your local
laws and when you can display a firearm
in a defensive manner in the state of
california
you can as in necessary self-defense
inform that you have a firearm but it's
a pretty vague statute and i think that
this guy got a little bit lucky that he
didn't have some trouble with the
authorities over this so he didn't
display it in a rude threatening or
aggressive manner
uh and he did it in self-defense and it
wasn't actually using the gun it was
just informing that he had it so
this is really dependent on the state
where i live in the state of arizona we
have a very strong defensive display
statute and this would be fine
so you make sure you check that in your
in you know jurisdiction so that you do
the right thing because in some places
this would be considered brandishing a
firearm which can be a felony could be
even considered aggravated assault
so i would say be very cautious of that
also think about when it is that you
would be willing to step in because
the the reality is this guy put himself
in harm's way
for people that he had no idea who they
are so he did that in such a manner that
that he put himself in a spot for people
that he doesn't know which you might be
willing to do but make sure you thought
about it in advance so you're not trying
to formulate a plan
when you're in the spur of the moment
but you know that you are going to do
that now i think that there's an
interesting
bit here that interestingly it worked
and and this got this guy
to just leave the area it got him to
heck off and so sometimes
using a lower level of force if you use
enough of it early enough will keep you
from having to use
more force later i do think here rather
than displaying a firearm i would
recommend again
having something like an oc spray
something between a harsh word and a gun
to get this guy you know significantly
diminished and then
you know end that threat then get on the
phone with 9-1-1 after something like
this certainly if you display a firearm
i would recommend
certainly that you call authorities and
that you you know make sure that you're
the one that wins the fight to 9-1-1
as well let's make sure we're thinking
about the defensive display of a firearm
whether we'd step
into a third party encounter let's make
sure that we use our verbal judo as we
seek to cover our asp