today we get to see a perfect use of a
defensive firearm that will never make
any statistics
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hi friends welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection i'm your
host john korea today's video comes to
us from vancouver washington i use
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over here on the left is our defender
who has been out with his friends and
you can see it's not super late it's a
weekend they've had some drinks and
they've gone to their favorite deli for
a little bit of food his friend you know
they were joking around on the sidewalk
was laughing really loudly and this guy
over here heard them laughing thought
they were laughing at him and so he
pulled his car back around and starts
talking to our defender going hey man
what are you guys laughing at why are
you laughing at me or something like
that and they're like nah man we're not
laughing at you whatever we're just
having fun over here and the guy says oh
i'll show you what and actually draws a
rifle which makes our defender draw his
own pistol and come back up here that
makes the guy run off now according to
our defender he said that he called the
cops they didn't respond at all so 30
minutes later he left so they're not
even looking for this bad guy at all but
he's certainly learned a lesson i'm
going to play it through one more time i
have a version that has a little bit
more on our
aggressor you see him here pick up that
rifle and point it out the window which
makes our defender duck down and draw
his own handgun come up and point it and
that makes our dude run off again the
police were called they did not respond
to this one vancouver washington very
difficult high crime rate uh they don't
even respond to stuff like this if shots
aren't fired and there's not you know
anybody hurt so we get to think about
serious lessons
now here's an interesting question i
have for you out of this one
how often and when's the last time you
practiced drawing your firearm and not
firing but presenting and issuing
commands i think that's an interesting
lesson out of today's video let's get to
more i know some people are going to
take umbrage with him having some
alcoholic beverages while he's carrying
a firearm and i do believe that if
you're carrying a firearm it is the most
prudent thing not to consume alcohol
even in places where it's legal it
certainly makes your decision-making go
down that said this is in washington
state and there are no laws in
washington state against the consumption
of alcohol while you are carrying a
firearm of course you are still going to
be
required to make reasonable decisions
and of course you and only you know if
you do consume some alcohol where your
decision-making ability starts to be
impaired so my recommendation if you're
carrying a firearm is not to drink
alcoholic beverages but what he did was
breaking zero laws and he did make good
decisions and so therefore i don't have
a problem with it in this particular
case that said he's out just having fun
with his friends and that caused some
offense to some random dude okay you
can't always you know cause that you
can't always do anything about that but
the guy shows up and he starts jacking
at these guys and going hey man what's
your problem whatever and shows a rifle
at him now that is a an intense
situation of escalation very quickly guy
just decides oh this is an ego contest
i'm frustrated that you challenged my
ego so i'm gonna show a rifle at you
that's a hundred percent a deadly threat
and i would have no problem with our
defender simply drawing his firearm and
engaging this guy and burning him down
right now i think he's 100 percent
justified to do so and drawing his
firearm and engaging him absolutely
reasonable in this case i think he did a
couple of interesting things here number
one he draws and then gets down behind
cover i think that's really wise he gets
out of the guy's line of sight and so if
you can disappear basically in this
particular case i think that's really
wise getting away from that now some
people may not have the flexibility of
our defender here to get low but to get
that gun out and then i i would say to
to get yourself to a position of
advantage where you can be the hunter
and not the rabbit very important now
one administrative mistake that i think
our defender made watch him get the gun
out here and then he's gonna go and
chamber around you can see him do it
right here i don't recommend chamber
empty carry it worked in this case and
it's not the end of the world in this
particular case because he had the time
and the opportunity and the ability to
get his gun in the fight but generally
speaking
we see so many instances where that is a
difference between life and death i
don't recommend it i recommend learning
your administrative gun handling
practices and following the rules of
safe firearms handling instead and
carrying your firearm ready to go
now then another thing i think our
defender did just fine gets up and
recognizes okay what's going on here and
and what should i do i will say this he
popped up in the exact same spot where
he left and therefore he was a little
bit more predictable it's not really a
big deal but as pat mcnamara says people
are pre-programmed to pick up patterns
of predictability so if you can pop up
in a different place even if it's a
couple of feet over even if it's just
from a different angle if you can don't
pop up in the same place that you
disappeared from because that's the
first place that he's going to look for
you now then as it goes away i do want
to say that our defender said i just
didn't feel like with the backstop that
the backstop was too dirty for me to
take this shot i think that shows a
ridiculous amount of maturity to
recognize what his skill level is this
is about a seven yard shot something
like that you know the length of a car a
little bit you know more than that and
so okay fine i think if you have the
skill set that i would really recommend
that every self-defender have a skill
set that can do this but our defender in
that moment said gosh i don't know that
i do so he chose not to take this shot
that shows really good decision-making
and i'm proud of him for doing that and
and knowing your own personal skill set
that means you've got to get to the
range i would also say i'd recommend a
little bit of gun school our defender
had had his concealed carry permit
classes but that's it other than some
dry fire at home by his own admission so
having a little bit of gun school will
give you the competence and the
confidence to take this kind of shot and
end the threat a little bit quickly and
a little bit more definitively with
betterment for society i think it's
perfectly okay and that that simply
showing the firearm did the job here so
these are the kinds of defensive gun
uses that are not going to make it into
statistics it is instead going to just
you know never show up in any statistic
but it was an excellent defensive gun
use he was carrying his gun paying
attention to his world got his gun out
correctly and then made a correct
assessment and even without firing was
able to cover his asp one final thing on
this one though is that again he called
the police after 30 minutes no service
he decided to go home you guys know if
he followed the channel for a while i am
pro-police i am pro-law enforcement i
think that they generally speaking do a
great job and are good human beings that
said they are not going to be able to
protect you and in this day and age may
not be able even to come and take a
report and try to find this guy nothing
like that is going to happen and
therefore you need to be ready to
protect yourself just like our defender
was you need to cover your asp