Crazy L.A. Pot Shop Shootout! Matthew V.

Active Self Protection Podcast

John Correia and Mike Willever

True Crime

4.9 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Active Self Protection Podcast we sit down with Compton, CA marijuana dispensary security guard Matthew V. as he tells us about the night he faced down 4 determined armed-robbers and prevailed despite being shot in the face. Then we sit down with investigative reporter Stephen Gutowski of thereload.com and discuss the tragic Buffalo, NY mass-killer event and how New York's existing assault weapons ban and red flag laws failed to prevent the massacre. 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 retired 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. Title music by Jorikbasov.

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0:00.0	My gun jammed twice, actually, during the fight. During that situation, I did not realize my gun jam, because I remember pointing my gun and pulling the trigger, but nothing happened. You just hear that flick.
0:13.4	Hey, gang, I guarantee if you're watching the main channel, you're seeing these videos of people in self-defense encounters all the time.
0:19.6	People start bleeding. They start bleeding fast.
0:21.7	We as self-defenders should be interested in all the tools that can protect and preserve innocent life. And good trauma gear can do that. It's just as important as a fire or maybe more so. Listen, trauma is trauma. Whether it's a vehicle accident, a farming accident, or a gunshot wound, when seconds count, you need the right equipment for the job. you must get your trauma gear from a reputable source and Mountain Man Medical as ASP's go-to source for all of our medical gear.
0:43.5	Go to Mountain Manmedical.com and let them know you heard about them on the ass podcast.
0:48.3	All right, gang, check it out.
0:49.4	This week's guest, his defensive encounter was actually captured on video and was featured on the
0:54.8	Active Self Protection main channel back on May 10th of 2022. So go check that out. It'll give you
1:00.1	some frame of reference for this episode. So enjoy. All right, gang, welcome back to the
1:05.6	active cell protection podcast. I am your host, as always, Mike Willover, your favorite former Fed with us today.
1:12.4	A young man with the name of Matthew Villegas.
1:14.7	Matthew was featured prominently on the main channel not too long ago.
1:19.3	As he was in a pretty harrowing shootout in a marijuana dispensary in the Los Angeles area.
1:25.6	Matthew is 21 years old.
1:27.2	He is single. Ladies, he's single. He lives in the
1:30.1	LA area and he works as a security guard and bud tender, kind of like a bud Somalié at a shop in the
1:38.0	Compton area. Matthew, thank you so much for being on the show. I appreciate you coming on.
1:41.6	No problem. Thank you for having me on. So Matthew reached out to us after this thing and, you know, we have to vet this stuff. We can't just take everyone at their word that they are who they say they are. And I was pretty stoked to find that it was actually him and he was actually the person featured in the video because it was, there's a lot of lessons coming out of this video and I'm sure Matthew will be able to fill us in on all the stuff the blank spots that we don't know
2:05.1	about but first Matthew are you from the L.A. originally is that where you're originally from?
2:10.1	Yes. And what part of L.A. did you grow up in? Southgate. Okay. So people who
2:15.7	aren't from Southern California, L.A. is not a monolith.
2:18.4	There's like 8,000 cities around Los Angeles.
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