sometimes even if you have zero skills
with a gun
as long as it's there it makes a huge
difference
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i'm john correa your host here at active
self-protection and i thank you
for joining us for today's lesson it
comes to us
out of pakistan news story linked in the
description says the old man at the
bottom has been robbed several times
recently so he's brought a gun
now these guys are coming up on the moto
are going to rob him again but let's
listen in
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little bit of information in the news
story says that he was able to drive
them
off i didn't hear about any injuries on
any party's part
and that is where this one ends boy when
he started blasting i was just hoping
everybody else
got the heck out of the way i got a
question for you out of today's video
how has 2020 impacted your training
whether it's empty-handed or
firearms use have you gotten any
training at all this year i know for
most of us
it's been kind of a wash year because of
the lockdowns and
concerns about kovid and all those
things and i'm curious
what's gone on in your world certainly
has impacted mine i've still gotten out
there and trained still going out in
there to help people as best i can
but we had several months there where we
couldn't so it's going to be a light
year how about you
so first i want to say i think that it
is absolutely
right for good saints sober moral people
to be able to protect themselves
i also think that this man who has been
robbed before has decided okay i'm going
to keep a gun at my shop and i think
that is a fine answer and i think all
good saints over moral people
should be able to protect themselves
with the best tools available
in this case it looks like a shorty ak
that he has okay fine i think that's
great
of course i am going to recommend that
we get highly trained with them so that
we are competent with them
now then he is also paying attention to
his world so he's just going about his
business doing his thing
and now we get three robbers now i do
want to note here a couple things number
one
on our camera right now we cannot see
the fact that these guys are a deadly
threat and i think that that is
a limitation of video and i think it's
one that we should recognize
that video is not going to show us
everything that the person says
or that the person sees rather and it
that the fact of the matter is that what
they
see is what's important not what the
camera sees we're going to see a gun in
his hand a little later though so
he sees that and gets on these guys and
so now our dude is gonna go to work now
this is the part where he goes and this
is where he starts his reaction when he
sees first of all he's paying attention
attention buys you time time buys you
options but bigger thing here
i'm not a big fan of staging guns
somewhere in your store
and the reason not is because it takes
way too long to get them out and in the
fight i'd rather you have
a firearm on your person now not an ak
you know a handgun or something like
that
because as we get the action going again
it's gonna take him
a full four seconds to get the gun out
to get it chambered and to get a shot
broke here so it took him
four seconds to do all that which if you
watch the channel much you'll recognize
is an eternity
in a gunfight so i'd much rather you
have something on your person that you
can get out in that 2.0
standard or a 1.5 second standard rather
than take four seconds or more
next couple things here notice how he's
holding it he's got you know thumb over
he's got the stock nowhere near him and
he's just pointing the gun out there and
shooting learn to use the firearms
effectively
and learn to use the sights on the gun
now that does an okay job of driving
these guys off notice here that our
driver
looks like i don't know if he's got some
kind of body armor on and his helmet on
or whatever but he's clearly pointing a
firearm at this point so we can see the
objective deadly threat at this point
but we didn't get to see it early
thankfully the other guy was paying
attention
notice here as well that our bad guy
seems to have a malfunction in his gun i
see this with some regularity in gun
fights
um and i think that's collated with
research from my friend greg
ella fritz who many guns that he has
taken off of perps that he arrested in
his career as a law enforcement officer
were crappy guns unloaded didn't work
those kinds of things so
if you can get a shot on the meaty bits
of the other guy there's not a bad shot
that his gun is going to malfunction and
he's going to have a hard time clearing
that
and that's not a bad thing but of course
now i want you to notice as well here
that our good guy
is following his bad guy but notice that
almost right on in the line of his fire
that dark color at the top in that line
of fire
is another person and as a good person
you are accountable for every round that
leaves the muzzle of your firearm so
you must practice good firearms safety
procedures at all times which number one
always keep the firearm
pointed in the direction of least
consequence and that certainly means not
winging shots off
towards innocence and not only putting
our finger on the trigger when we made
the conscious decision to fire
so these guys are gonna run off okay
fine i do notice they're trying to shoot
at our dude
and uh thankfully not getting any hits
because they're too far away and why
don't most people get more hits because
they do stuff like this if you notice
he's actually resting that gun on the
counter he's holding the stock with one
hand pressing the trigger with his right
hand
seeing nothing of the sights and just
kind of pointing it in that general
direction
uh and it worked in this case and i do
want to say that there is plenty of time
that a firearm is basically a noisemaker
that it it's really not about using it
with any kind of
effectiveness it's just making noise and
having a desk pop at your desk that
drives the bad guys off and that's the
power of the force multiplier
of a firearm now that said i think that
it is highly dangerous to do that is
dangerous to
all of the people in the vicinity so i
would strongly recommend that you have a
higher level of skill than that
that said success covers a multitude of
sins this guy didn't appear to hurt
anybody drove the bad guy off and even
with that crazy level of skill
he covered as asp