Response with an Unarmed Associate

Response with an Unarmed Associate Roy Pincus: Here’s another important video from the Personal Defense Network. The republic environment you’re going to have to deal with lots of different types of people and of course the person that you’re with may or may not be someone that’s trained with you or someone that you perceive is being capable defending themselves. Let’s take a look at what happens when Jeremiah is involved in a critical incident in a public environment and he is with someone that he does not perceive as being able to take care of themselves. [Demonstration] Jeremiah Miles: As I recognize the threat I’m going to move to the gun. I see that he’s articulate. He’s going to kill everybody. He has hit somebody with a gun. So I’m going to go what I did was necessary. [Demonstration] Roy Pincus: Now as the situation develops further let’s take a look at what happens when someone else enters in to the situation who is capable of taking care of themselves. When we see a person in a public environment with a firearm who is obviously able to defend themselves it doesn’t automatically mean they’re a threat. One of the things you have to take into account with multiple person tactics is that you may never have met the person that’s going to be involved in any incident you may never trained with them but you need to be aware of how to use the three Cs to make sure that everything stays safe for everybody involved or at least the safest possible that can be in the middle of a critical incident in a public environment. [Demonstration] Jeremiah Miles: At this point John puts his gun away. He’s seen everything that happened. He saw the threat that come in, he saw the threat go down. So he puts together, he’s safe with me having the gun. I had no idea that he was just a gun of the consumer carry permit. I was fixated on the threat. Now it’s a good another situation where the communication is going to be more complicated. [Demonstration] So after the incident, after John took control I called 911. So as you can see communication is a very important aspect in two person team tactics. Obviously this communication with the person that you know that’s the coordination, communication, cooperation. This communication with people you don’t know have a gun. Just because you see a gun it doesn’t mean that you can shoot. A lot of the threat targets that you should add in a normal scenario house, a normal shoot house have guns and knives. Just because you have a gun or a knife in somebody’s hand doesn’t necessarily mean that they are a threat because this last situation he had a concealed carry permit, I had a concealed carry permit. He had a gun pointed. I had a gun pointed. Now you keep that in mind and in your training that the communication is what’s going to overcome that threat or side of it. Good guys shooting good guy. More and more people are carrying concealed guns. Whether it’s the off duty police officer or the private civilian who wants to defend themselves. So it’s becoming more and more likely that you’re going to run into a situation where you do not know if the person with the gun is just a concealed carry permit holder or it’s a bad gun. That’s why its important to recognize not only the weapon but the intensions of the person with the weapon is a gun pointed at you? Is the gun in a ready position? It depends on where the persons looking. Are they looking at you about to swing the gun like you saw in the scenario earlier? There’s a lot of things that you need to recognize before you can actually use the gun in self defense. Roy Pincus: Check out more video just like this one at the Personal Defense Network.