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Active Self Protection Podcast

American Ex Pat Repels Gang Of Home Invaders! Charles Shirley

Active Self Protection Podcast

John Correia and Mike Willever

True Crime

4.9542 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Active Self Protection Podcast we sit down with retired U.S. Army Military Police Officer Charles Shirley as he tells us about the night he had to repel a group of organized criminals who were holding his family at gunpoint. Then we sit down with investigative reporter Stephen Gutowski of the reload.com and discuss the possible nomination of former United States Representative Allen West to replace Wayne LaPierre as the CEO of the National Rifle Association (NRA). Active Self Protection exists to help good, sane, sober, moral, prudent people in all walks of life to more effectively protect themselves and their loved ones from criminal violence. On the ASP Podcast you will hear the true stories of life or death self defense encounters from the men and women that lived them. If you are interested in the Second Amendment, self defense and defensive firearms use, martial arts or the use of less lethal tools used in the real world to defend life and family, you will find this show riveting.  Join host and career federal agent Mike Willever and the rest of the ASP staff as they talk to real life survivors and hear their stories in depth. You'll hear about these incidents and the self defenders from well before the encounter occurred on through the legal and emotional aftermath. Title music by Jorikbasov.

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0:00.0

Bad guy number one has my son with a pistol to his head, and he's got his left arm around his neck, his right hand pistol to his forehead or the side of his head here.

0:09.8

Another guy, short squat guy, comes out with my daughter, and he's got both arms wrapped around her.

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0:47.9

All right, gang, welcome back to the Active Self Protection podcast.

0:51.0

I am your host, Mike Williver, your favorite former Fed with us today.

0:55.8

A gentleman by the name of Charles Shirley, he is married. He has three kids. And he is currently

1:00.8

living in the Midwest. And he's a retired military police officer from the U.S. Army. Charles,

1:05.7

thanks so much for being here. Thank you. Thank you, Mike. Great show. Thank you.

1:09.9

So there's a lot we do on this show to talk about the before and the after, but your incident is particularly harrowing.

1:17.6

I use that word a lot, but it really applies here. And I've just gotten the basics from you and done some verification.

1:24.6

It's a real thing that really happened. And so I'd like to, as I say,

1:28.2

I like to learn about the incident at the same time that my audience is learning about it. So I

1:32.8

don't know much more than the basics. But we're going to start with where you are from originally.

1:37.9

Where are you from, Charles? I grew up in Georgia and there is Augusta, Georgia.

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