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Do me a favor, check out Palm Pepperper spray at get-asp.com slash palm. Get-dash-asp.com slash pawn. Well, already, gang, welcome back to the active self-protection podcast. I was always your host, Mike Williver, and I remain your favorite former fed with me today. a new friend of mine, his name is Ty, also known as Corporal Simcox of the Colorado State Patrol. He sent in a video that I have not yet watched, but I do have a spoiler alert. In the video, he gets shot, and there is a gunfight. So it's going to be a bumpy ride. I have a feeling. He is in Denver,

Colorado and married with three kids. Ty, how are you, sir? But how are you doing with that? Not too bad. So before we get started, are you mended up completely from having been shot, I hope? I actually am. This is where I got shot right there. Okay, so right forearm? right for them and then it pulled it out on this side, so it was a spur on this side. But I have 100% movement and zero disability. That's great. I think a lot of people, they hear, oh, you know, state trooper shot, stable condition, you know, he'll make a full recovery. Sometimes a full recovery isn't what you think it is. Sometimes a full recovery means you're forced to retire or leave the job or recovery means you don't really have full use of whatever appendage got shot or whatever. And then of course, PTSD is a real thing that you don't always make a full recovery from. So we'll talk about all that stuff here in a little bit. So yes, for those who were just listening and not watching, he indicated his right forearm and there's a hole or a former hole, a mark on each side. So I guess the bullet went in and it didn't come out. They removed it from the other side or did it go through? It went about three quarters the way through. So they did take it out. They took it out from the other side. Okay. Any, did it break any bones

before him? And this bolt of bones. It did hit one of my ligaments and it kind of tweaked it for a little bit,

but it healed up perfectly fine. So I got super lucky and hitting nerves also. So yeah,

that's actually, that's insanely lucky, actually. Um, yeah. So tell us tell us how long, how long were you, have you been in a Colorado state? Is it patrolman, trooper? Yeah, trooper, state trooper. This happened back in September of 2024, so I had like 16 years on at the time. Okay. So, you know, I, I know a lot of people in a lot of different levels of law enforcement. I, in fact, my son's father-in-law is an Arizona DPS state trooper. I know with deputies versus police officers, there's like a little deputies can get pissy if you refer to them. If people call them officers, is that the same thing for state troopers or no? Sometimes, some of them, you're a little bugged about it, but it's not big though. Whatever comes out, it's fine. But yeah, we're technically troopers. Right. Yeah, I was a special agent for Homeland Security investigations and I never expected anyone to call me a special agent. I got called officer a few times, deputy. I'm like, whatever, just don't call me late for dinner. Anyway, so tell us about you kind of growing up.

What is it that inspired you to want to go into law enforcement?

I have my story that I've told before here on the podcast,

but it's a calling to go into L.E.

At least it used to be up.

These days I'm not so sure what's going on here lately,

but what is it that led you to want to go into career in law enforcement?

Funny enough, the first time I ever decided and I thought I wanted to be a cop was, I believe it was 1991 or 1992.

And I just felt done watching my first episode of cops. And I was like, that was awesome. I want to do that.

And that was the first time I ever, I sure remember it.

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