In today's video we're going to cover something very important that many self
defenders forget to train when they do their firearms training. Doing this could
save your life, while also just making you a better self-defender.... right after
the channel intro. Welcome to this channel. This channel is all about
learning how to prepare for when the dark times come and the grocery stores
are stripped bare. And this channel is all about prepping for those dark days
while still retaining our integrity and our honor. And we all know that when
stuff hits the fan and when we are faced with a life-or-death situation that we
will not rise to the occasion but actually fall back on to how we train
and what we've ingrained into our muscle memory. When we are truly facing death
our analytical part of our brain quits working and our caveman part of our
brain takes over. And when that happens our thinking goes out the window and our
automatic movements are what we will be capable of doing, so don't count on being
able to think about having to do something during a true life-or-death
self-defense situation. You need to train over and over again all of the important
things that you need to do when defending yourself with a firearm, because
folks if you don't this could just cost you your life. And obviously with any
self-defense videos that you watch, be sure to research the self-defense laws
in your area to make sure that you don't put yourself into legal jeopardy just
trying to defend yourself. But today we're going to talk about simply not
forgetting to scan for additional threats after you shoot in a
self-defense situation. And don't click off of the video yet because this is a
more of an important topic than what many of you will realize.
Many people just do forget to train to scan after firing their weapon; and if
you're familiar with the term "Training Scar" it's where you train in a wrong
technique, so when you are forced to put your training into a real-life situation,
that incorrect technique that you've trained with now comes out in your real
life situation. And this incorrect technique can get you hurt or killed or
whatever. So when you're on the range and you're practicing self-defense shooting,
you should always scan as if you're looking for additional threats before
you holster each and every time. And actually as you begin to draw your
weapon you should also practice moving and giving voice commands also and
everything else that's involved with self-defense firearms training.
But that's a different video for a different time. Today is about scanning
and breaking that "tunnel vision." And if you're not familiar with tunnel vision:
it's where your brain perceives a threat therefore your brain has your eyes and
your attention specifically focus on that thing that is a threat to your life.
All the while you inadvertently ignore everything else going on around you.
Folks, when you are confronted with a deadly threat... I can tell you from
personal experience that it's really easy to develop this tunnel vision on
that threat, and then not see or comprehend anything else that's
happening around you. In fact, during extreme tense life-or-death situations
it's not uncommon for a self defender to completely focus on the bad guy's weapon itself.
Many times a self defender won't even see the face of the bad guy or the
clothes he's wearing or anything else. You may only remember that knife or that
gun that he was threatening you with, so you need to train yourself so that you
begin scanning for other threats as soon as you perceive that your initial and
known threat is down. And let me repeat this just for more
clarity: while your KNOWN threat is still a threat to you, then you deal with your
known threat until you perceive that it is no longer an immediate danger to you.
And then once you feel that you're identified and known threat is
incapacitated and is no longer a threat to you, THEN you scan for potential
additional threats. For example: let's just say that you were involved in a
self-defense shooting in a parking lot. Let's just say that you've shot a guy
who demanded that you give him money and then he started to pull a gun on you.
You want to make sure that you scan for additional threats because: does this guy
have a friend or friends that's now coming up behind you? Is there a cop
approaching and you're still standing there with a gun in your hand? And this
cop doesn't know if you're a good guy or not? Or are there other people around
that can be a witness for you and confirm that this bad guy tried to rob
you at gunpoint? And here's something that almost all self-defence instructors
(instructors who also teach to scan in self-defense shootings) but here's what
almost all instructors forget to talk about after you shoot someone in
self-defense: it is not like what you see on TV where
the bad guy just drops down automatically dead and just kind of
disappears.... so where just seconds before your tunnel vision was completely on
that bad guy's weapon that he was threatening you with... now your focus is
going to be on his physical reaction to being shot by your gun. Now your focus is
naturally going to be on that bad guy as he's having physical reactions to being shot.
...his screams of pain ...his bleeding... and everything else that's going to be
happening at that point. And this is what you need to mentally prepare yourself
for: to train enough so that you take those few couple of seconds to scan
for additional threats while all of the stuff that would naturally hold your
attention and hold you into that tunnel vision is going on. So folks, these are
just some things to think about when you get into a deadly use of force encounter.
One of the things that you need to ingrain into yourself so that you
automatically do it is break your tunnel vision and become "situationally" and
"informationally" aware of what is now occurring all around you. And when you do
scan, don't scan like what you're seeing in the video that's playing right now.
This dangerously flags everybody around you, whether you're on the range or in
real life. When you scan keep your weapon pointed at your target and look
completely around you. And you can see how in these videos that I take a
complete 360 look around me. And each self-defense situation is different, so a
one-size-fits-all answer can't be given here about when it's time to holster
your weapon after a self-defense shooting. But you don't want to holster
your weapon (or place your weapon into a safe area) until you are fairly certain
that your initial deadly threat is no longer a threat to you and you are also
not facing any other additional threats. You just have to find that happy medium
of when to make your weapon safe after shooting someone in self-defense.
You don't want to holster your gun before you are completely safe, but you also
don't want to still have your gun in your hands when the uniform cops show up.
Cops generally receive very limited information over the radio when they're
dispatched. When they show up they've probably only been told that a shooting
has happened and they may perceive you as an aggressor and not as a self
defender. Let's put it this way: even as cops we are taught that if we're
off-duty and in plain clothes that even we don't want to have a gun in our hands
when the uniformed cops show up. And really quick: please take the
anonymous poll that should be appearing on the top right of the screen just
about now... and choose if you do practice scanning in your firearms training or not.
And folks, when you are on the range don't practice overdramatic "tacti-cool"
scanning like you're seeing on the video right now. Inexperienced people may think
that you look cool, but you're just going to look like an idiot to more
experienced people. Just doing simple and smooth transitions will get the job done.
So now here is where you can help out the rest of the prepping community:
Please comment below with tips and things that you like to employ in all of
your self-defense firearms training; and why you think they are very important to
the self-defense community. And you would be surprised of how many self defenders
have to change hand gun magazines during a self-defense situation. And those split
seconds that you have to put in a fresh mag could cost you your life. So to learn
how to do a magazine change that could save your life, then click on the video
link that should be appearing on the top of the screen (just about now) to learn
more about that. And after shtf you may not have wood or fuel to cook with, so to
learn about a very valuable tool that Preppers need, to have just another
option to cook food with off-grid: then click on the video that should be
appearing on the right side of the screen just about now. Anyways folks, if
you made it this far: hey, thank you very much for watching, and I pray that you
have a good night.
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