Can And Should You Draw A Firearm To Defend A Pet? -Tony Alonso

Active Self Protection Podcast

John Correia and Mike Willever

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4.9 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Active Self Protection Podcast we sit down with self-defender Tony Alonso and discuss the day he was helping a friend by dog-sitting when the dog he was watching had a close call with another neighborhood pooch (and how he came close to drawing his firearm AND how that could have come back to bite him). Then we sit down with investigative reporter Stephen Gutowski of thereload.com and discuss which high-ranking member of the NRA staff is leaving and what that signals for the embattled gun rights organization.

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. Music: bensound.com

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0:00.0	I saw this boxer running pretty much full speed across the road at me.
0:03.7	And the only thing I can think of is, holy cow, you know, why aren't you coming to get your dog?
0:11.7	You know, if you guys have been listening to the show for a while, you've heard more than one episode where OC spray got someone out of a bind and prevented them from having to use more force in a personal self-defense
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0:37.0	This is going to solve far more
0:38.2	problems more frequently than a firearm and I wouldn't leave the house without it. As I've said before, I got one for my wife. I got one for my daughter. My son is about to go into law enforcement carries one. And I've had a good friend, uh, Solay Roche, who is a member of the actor's self-protection team to use it successfully in a real life defensive encounter. Get one at get dash asp.com
0:57.4	slash P. All righty, gang, welcome back to the active self-protection podcast. I am your host, Mike Willover, and I am your favorite former Fed, whether you like it or not. To with me me today, a new friend of mine. Mike, you have a lot of new friends. I know I do. I know I do. I consider everyone of my guests to be a friend. Tony and I have spoken before we hit the record button, and we're friends now. So there. Tony Alonzo is from a town nearish to Chicago. He is single with no kids. You heard it here first, ladies. And he is a school social worker with all sorts of training that we'll get into here in a little bit. But some really good stuff that kind of butts right up against some of our mission at Actual Self Protection. So it's a pleasure to have him on. Tony, thanks for
1:44.2	writing in and thanks for being on the show. I appreciate you. Thank you for having me. I really appreciate it. My pleasure. So as I alluded to earlier, he is a school social worker, but that isn't, I think people thinking like the guidance counselor from when we were, we were younger, and I think it's probably a lot more involved than that these days.
2:00.2	Is that accurate?
2:01.7	Yeah, I would say so.
2:03.8	You know, one of my and I think it's probably a lot more involved than that these days. Is that accurate?
2:01.7	Yeah, I would say so.
2:03.8	You know, one of my best friends, I would say, is a guidance counselor at my building.
2:08.7	And we love everything we do.
2:10.7	We have a lot of overlap, but there are some differences as well.
2:13.6	I tend to work more with the special education students and whatnot.
2:16.4	So there's a lot of paperwork and things.
2:18.9	So kind of just give us a flavor because I think a lot of folks probably don't know.
2:23.1	My sister is a social worker at a hospital out in Maryland.
2:26.5	So I have a little behind the scenes.
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