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Ready, Aim... Point? Is that enough to make the bad guy stop?

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4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2015

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Did you miss this on Sunday's show? Tom addresses the idea out there that pointing a gun may make the bag guy give up.

Transcript

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0:00.0

One of the things that Mike said I want to address quickly, and I'm not trying to jump on Mike, but I want everybody to not think this way.

0:09.0

The thoughts you allow to have in your head, this is one of the things I want you to really work on.

0:15.2

The thoughts you put into your head will determine what you do.

0:21.2

Chris Serino has a great way of putting it. He says the body will not go

0:25.0

where the mind has not already gone.

0:28.0

His point is if you haven't thought about what you're going to do then you're not going to go there.

0:35.2

If you think this thought, and Mike expressed it, well if you're lucky the display of a gun will stop the situation.

0:45.0

Don't ever think that.

0:48.0

Don't ever entertain that idea.

0:51.0

Because here's what that idea puts into your head. I will show the gun and then

0:57.0

see what happens. We just finished our first-person defender series a second season.

1:06.0

It's funny, I was just making this comment to Ryan.

1:09.0

One of the things I got out of that, after watching all this develop and watching people shoot and all and

1:14.2

get into these situations is how often people when they knew that was an assault coming,

1:19.3

they knew this was an assault. That's why they're there. They know they're going to

1:22.0

have to get into a fight of some sort.

1:24.0

They pull a gun and stop. Somebody's actually pointing a gun at them. They pull a gun and stop and then yell at command.

1:31.0

Really? Somebody's got a gun pointed at you

1:37.0

or is assaulting your child and you pull a gun and then you issue a command?

1:42.0

We need to get the thinking right here people.

1:45.0

First of all you don't pull your gun until there is clear reason to shoot.

1:55.0

If there's clear reason to shoot,

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