today is the second time recently here
on the channel that we've seen people
have to defend themselves against dogs
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thanks for joining us on today's active
self protection lesson my name is John
Correa today's video comes to us from
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in the description on this one we have
some audio we are gonna listen in to
it's pretty hairy here we see on the
left-hand side our home owner who knew
these dogs were problems you go read the
news story these dogs were out in the
neighborhood for a while he knew they
were gonna be problems went outside with
that pipe in his hand to protect himself
against them those dogs that attacked
several others in the neighborhood and
it took police over an hour to corral
these dogs you can see him run off then
the officers gonna sit here in the lot
for just a minute in the street and then
finally turn around that homeowner was
uninjured he was able to fight those
dogs off the dogs actually though had
hurt several other people it did take
the officers at least an hour to corral
him and that's where this one ends it's
pretty serious stuff all the way around
and he handled himself okay I got a
question for you out of this one and
it's this do you have the internal
fortitude would you shoot a dog if you
felt like it was gonna come after you I
know it's a contentious issue in America
and a lot of Americans consider dogs
like furry family members so I'm
wondering what you will think about that
I will answer mine in our lessons so
let's think about the pre attack cues on
this one this guy knew that these dogs
were bad news they knew that they were
out in the neighborhood and this is New
Jersey okay fine so carrying a firearm
outside the home almost completely
unheard of in the state of New Jersey
because they're basically no issue so he
went out with what he had with this pipe
but this is why I really want kids
carry across the United States this is
why I think laws like New Jersey's laws
are draconian because against three dogs
he absolutely needed a firearm he
absolutely needed that to be able to end
the threat to his person but he did a
good job given what he had here okay so
you notice here he's gonna come back and
he gets this bat into a you know big
pipe into a place to swing it that's the
problem with the pipe now it did work
okay in this instance as the threat to
these dogs but he's got three dogs
chasing him down and now he has to have
enough room to swing this the problem of
course if he has enough room to swing
the pipe they have enough room to
surround him and so that puts him at a
bit of a catch-22 another reason I want
to have a better tool like a firearm but
he does an ok job posturing here and
finally gets that bat back to where he
can get into a good swinging position
again if you have a medium-range fast
moving tool like a pipe or a bat you
need room to swing it and the problem of
course is in order to get it ready you
have to take it out of contact of who it
is that's attacking you which gives them
an opportunity to get inside the
distance of your pipe and so that
thankfully didn't happen in this case
he's able to bring it down with some
effect and caused these dogs to back off
far enough to keep them away from him
but recognize here he is doing a good
job of keeping them at some distance I
think a far better job if he had a
better tool on him now again I'm not
blaming him for that but I do think this
is a great reason for average good
normal people to concealed-carry I've
never shot a dog personally I have OC
sprayed a dog three times though and I
do think as well that having an OC spray
on your person which is even legal in
the People's Republic of New Jersey is a
good idea here it is generally very
effective on dogs just like humans some
aren't very affected by it but very few
most it is gonna absolutely send them
away so having something like an OC
spray because it's got some distance can
do that as well
next do we see the police show up and I
think that's great but it's gonna take
them a whole hour to get these dogs into
custody and you know they can end up
calling animal control and all those
things so even when they're on scene
they can't get there fast enough to
protect you you and you alone are
responsible for your personal protection
because the police just can't be
everywhere at once so I want the lessons
out of this one to make sure that we
understand distance that we understand
that threats as they come to us that we
keep the best tools on us that we
possibly can
maintain our distance know how to defend
ourselves against dogs as we think about
covering our ASP