Defender Shoots Stalker In Front Of His Own Home! Benjamin Backus

Active Self Protection Podcast

John Correia and Mike Willever

True Crime

4.9 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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This week on the Active Self Protection Podcast we sit down with self-defender Benjamin Backus and talk about how a neighbor with a past whom he had befriended and tried to help devolved into a drug-addled, threatening stalker and the fateful morning when Benjamin was forced to use a firearm to protect himself and his son. Then we sit down with investigative reporter Stephen Gutowski of the reload.com and discuss possible federal legislation regarding red flag laws and gun control in the wake of several mass killings. 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	I tell him to get down on the ground and to stop.
0:03.0	The whole time I'm trying to give verbal commands and he's threatening me and telling me to shoot him.
0:08.0	I knew that he owned a SIG and so I thought he was going for his gun.
0:13.0	We're very close.
0:14.0	It's at that point that I pulled the trigger in the center of his chest and he just drops.
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1:02.8	All righty gang, welcome back to the active self protection podcast. I am your host, Mike Williver, your favorite former Fed.
1:09.5	With us today is a young man who reached out to us about his
1:12.5	critical incident and provided more documentation than I've ever seen in my life.
1:17.4	So this is one we can 100% verify is a true story.
1:21.2	Our guest today is Benjamin Backus.
1:23.0	He is single.
1:23.6	It has one son.
1:25.5	And he will be, hopefully we can get this synchronized. John will be
1:30.2	breaking down his video right about the same time as this podcast is released. So you can go over to
1:35.4	the main channel and watch it there. If you don't see it right away, give it a few hours or a day
1:39.4	and it'll be there at some point. Benjamin, thanks so much for being here, buddy.
1:43.2	Happy to be here.
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