Coordinated Multiple Person Response

Here's another important video from the Personal Defense Network. Now let's look at what we would consider a typical mugging situation. Jeremiah and I are finished eating dinner, and we're on our way to the car, walking through the parking lot. You can see that, as the situation starts to unfold, we still use that movement that we talked about. We're still communicating in open, plain, clear, and concise terms, and the bottom line is we're making this situation as safe for us as we possibly can, while still moving in an efficient manner. Give me all your money or I'll cut ya! Drop the knife! Drop the knife! Put the knife down! Jeremiah, come behind me. Move towards me, I'm moving to the car. I'm moving to the car, hold on him. Start the car. Don't move, just relax. Don't come any closer. Don't come any closer. Car's started move to your left, move to your left, move to your left. Move to your left, get in the car. Go ahead, I got him, I got cover. Got him, drive. So that was a great scenario scene with a lot of good learning points. And what you saw there was that, at some point, someone has to give up or maintain control of the actual would-be attacker so that they can then, or the other person can then, get into the car, get it started, and get into a situation where they can actually leave the environment. You're not gonna stay there in a stalemate if you have the means to get away. And we saw that it's much easier to get away when you actually have two people. You can imagine what that would have looked like if it was one person trying to open the car door, start the car, maybe be on the phone with 911 and keep the mugger away. Well, it was much easier, the would-be mugger never had a chance to hurt anyone because he was constantly covered by someone with a firearm expressing the clear intent to use it if necessary to defend themselves. So what we ended up with was the ability for John to get into the car and actually start it and drive and pay attention to the important processes of doing that safely, while Jeremiah took over the covering of the bad guy with his firearm and communicating with John effectively to make sure that they could cooperatively get out of the situation safely. That's just one example. Let's take a look now and see what would happen when we're going to communicate, coordinate, and cooperate with someone who doesn't have a firearm but can still help us by getting into that vehicle, getting it started. This time they are going to be the person that controls the vehicle, gets it started, and gets us out of the situation, while the person who is actually capable of using the firearm for self-defense pays attention to the attacker and let's that be the focus of their actions, while coordinating the actions of the other person who's not in a position to defend the couple. Give me all your money or I'll cut ya! Hey, hey, Jenny, here's the keys, get the car. You stay where you're at, you stay where you're at! Drop the knife, drop the knife, move back! Car's started, get in! Jenny, call 911! Stay there, stay there. All right, Jenny, go, go go! So as you could see, we had two fairly similar situations, one where both people were armed, one where just one person was armed. In either situation, you could see we still held to those three C's. We coordinated what we could, we communicated very effectively, and ultimately we cooperated in getting out of the situation as efficiently and as rapidly, as safely to us as we possibly could. Check out more videos just like this one at the Personal Defense Network.