Armed Self-Defender Shot Through The Eye Presses On And Ends The Threat! -Raul Mendez

Active Self Protection Podcast

John Correia and Mike Willever

True Crime

4.9 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Active Self Protection Podcast we sit down with self defender Raul and discuss the night he was enjoying an Independence Day party with family and friends when a quiet, unassuming neighbor suddenly produced a firearm and began shooting, striking Raul in the face destroying his eye and killing two others and how Raul was able to draw his own firearm and end the threat despite his horrible injuries. 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 as he talks 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. Music: bensound.com

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0:00.0	Well, all righty, gang, welcome back for the active self-protection podcast.
0:09.1	I'm once again your host, Mike Williver, and I remain your favorite.
0:12.9	Former Fed.
0:14.1	With us today is Raul.
0:15.6	Raul Mendez is out of Arizona, not too far from where I live, just north of me.
0:20.5	He is a firearm instructor.
0:22.2	He is married with three kids, and more on that later, by the way, foreshadowing.
0:27.1	And he has a real doozy of a story.
0:30.3	It is, he and I just spoke before he had the record button, and I am rarely blown away by a story or left speechless, but it is quite something.
0:40.2	So buckle up.
0:41.5	It's going to be interesting.
0:42.2	Well, thank you so much for being on.
0:43.6	I appreciate it.
0:44.7	No, thank you for having me.
0:46.3	So I mentioned at the top, you are a firearms instructor.
0:49.9	Is that something you've been doing for a long time or something that you picked up more recently?
0:53.7	And was it a result of, at least in part of the incident?
0:57.3	Was it something you were already planning on doing?
1:00.1	No, this is actually a result of the incident.
1:02.8	Just after what happened, eventually it just kind of grew a passion that my situation can happen to anybody.
1:10.7	And, you know, I feel like we lack people actually out there that are willing and want. that my situation can happen to anybody.
1:15.2	And, you know, I feel like we lack people actually out there that are willing and want to train people and give them that proper guidance of how to properly handle a firearm and how
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