Shot Point Blank And Left For Dead! Kevin Cooper
Active Self Protection Podcast
John Correia and Mike Willever
4.9 • 542 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Active Self Protection Podcast we sit down with Kevin Cooper who was minding his own business and getting gas at an Atlanta area gas station when he was confronted by a would-be carjacker, shot at point blank range and left to bleed to death. Kevin hopes his story will help others avoid the pitfalls of trying to rationalize what is a clearly dangerous situation. Then we sit down with investigative reporter Stephen Gutowski of the reload.com and discuss the political response to the awful Independence Day mass shooting in Illinois.
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 | And then he was like, you know, if you don't give me your keys, I swear I'll shoot you. |
| 0:03.7 | And I said, I'm sorry, man, I just can't give you my car. I'm sorry. I'll help you out how I can't, but I can't give you my car. Let go on me and step back about two feet. I felt the gun back on my knee and he pulled the trigger. Listen, gang, Lucky Gunner has both fantastic content and great prices on ammo. |
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| 0:48.2 | Just a heads up, gang, this episode, once again, with any luck, we can coordinate. |
| 0:53.0 | It will also be on the main channel. |
| 0:55.3 | Our guests today, his defensive encounter, such as it was, was caught on tape. |
| 1:00.7 | And John will be breaking that down over on the active cell protection main channel. |
| 1:04.3 | So go check that out. |
| 1:05.5 | And enjoy it. |
| 1:07.7 | All right, folks, welcome back to the Active Self Protection podcast. |
| 1:10.7 | I am your host. Once again, Mike Williver, your favorite, former Fed, with us today. A new friend of mine, Kevin Cooper. Kevin is resident of Florida, originally from Oklahoma. He has no kids and is single. So ladies, you heard of here first. Kevin is on the market, as it were. So Kevin, I want to thank you for coming on. Thank you so much. Thank you. |
| 1:31.5 | So someone reached out to me and told me about your story in particular. We try to cover every angle of self-defense that we can hear, not just the success story. Sometimes things go poorly and there's no resolution. Sometimes people get injured and there's no justice in the world as it seems like. |
| 1:47.6 | We want to cover everything so that people out there who are listening can hopefully learn a lesson |
| 1:51.4 | and maybe avoid finding themselves in the same position. |
| 1:54.8 | Of course, listening to Kevin's case, sometimes you can do everything right and bad things |
| 1:58.8 | still happen despite being cautious and being aware of your surrounding. So, Kevin, first of all, where are you from Oklahoma originally? What part of Oklahoma are you from? I'm west of Tulsa, Creek County, kind of suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Right on. I got a good friend there, Warren Wilson. He's a police officer in that area. It speaks highly of that general vicinity. A lot of good |
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