Top 5 Mistakes Concealed Carriers Make in Real Gunfights, Part 4 

I was a Virginia Tech student in 2007 and John has turned my lasting anxiety into confidence in threat identification, management, proper gear selection, and carry technique. Watch every minute of his content people. It's gold.

Can’t thank u enough for posting this series. I wouldn’t be able to make it to these in person seminars with my job and life. Incredibly valuable!! Thanks ASP crew!

Love your rattlesnake rattle analogy. I also have learned to look because most times it is a gopher snake rattling its tail in dry leaves. When you started talking about the rattle, thought you were talking about preemptive display rather than wild-ass mag dump. Mag dump would be more like a skunk spraying wildly, rattle is a quiet audible warning - not an attack.

Everything said here is the absolute truth but until you’ve been in a real gunfight you have no idea how you’ll perform. In ‘74 I engaged armed robbery suspects in a gunfight & had to reload my issued Colt Detective Special under fire. Before it was over I had emptied my gun twice, was out of ammo but the suspect was down. Never had the chance to look at my sights b/c it was after dark & there was no time to aim.

Show up to driving range im solid money. Minute I hit a gold course total shitshow lol. Night and day difference. This channel is a blessing. every instructor, every lecture, every guest, every single video. Game changer

This was serious, but got to a whole new level of serious when he brought up Buffalo and Uvalde.

13 is my favorite number 13:13 Thank you for sharing your seminar. I used to strongly dislike ASP because I had the wrong idea. Now I understand the value of living sober, sane, prudent, and moral. It's almost like I thought ASP was condoning gun violence, but now I understand. Thinking in this way can benefit everyone. Almost like therapy... learning these lessons really could help everyone.

Significant silence @ 8:05. Always a sign of things being said which are important.

John, I'd been watching your channel for a year when a road rager blocked my car and jumped out and started storming back to me to try to start a fight. I heard you saying not to let the guy get to my car and to floor it into him if I saw a weapon. My car automatically locks its doors but it was a nice day so I had the back windows down and was too occupied with the impending threat to put them up. My first thought was to put it in reverse and do a j-turn but there was a car behind me. Traffic cleared in the oncoming lane so I was able to whip a u-turn and floor it out of there. When I got to work and was able to decompress I stepped through what had happened and compared them to what you'd taught in your road rage defense videos. Had I not watched your videos I probably would have honked at the guy as he was approaching which would have enraged him more. He probably would have tried to pull me out or smashed up my car. I wasn't carrying pepper spray that day because my sister had lost hers so I'd given her mine. I probably would have eventually figured out to drive around him and his car but your videos put me in the defensive mindset much sooner. Tl;dr: people do hear your voice when stuff starts going down. Your lessons stick subconsciously. They're the ones who execute those lessons but you're there as a sensei spirit.

I love this, John! It's so well done... what a great teacher you are! I've always been the one in my family who keeps a level head when stuff goes down. I was the one who took care of the kids' injuries, doing triage and decided what needed to be done. I've managed a number of vehicular accidents, dealing with stuff as it needed to be done. I can melt down later. To date, I have not had a critical defensive incident. I pray I never do. But you'll be there screaming in my ear exactly what to do in the event that one comes my way. God bless you, sir!

lol when that lady fired that last shot out of the door

Good breakdown and analysis. You should reenact several gunfights from start to finish, including what transpires after the cops arrive, while simultaneously showing the various stresses and their effects on the individual.

magtech is legit tho.. this is the first youtube plug I'll allow

Profound, intense, moving.

Yep, what *he* said

Great serious as all yours are. Can't tell you how much I've learned and appreciate all the work you guys do. Thanks

Absolutely fabulous instruction, but it means nothing if you don’t employ the knowledge you have just learned! It’s not enough to just watch the videos, go do the work! I mentioned this somewhere else, I love guns and they are kind of my passion. That has absolutely zero to do with why I carry one everyday everywhere I go! I carry a gun for serious business, to keep myself, my loved ones, and my community safe when someone tries to commit harm! Rick

Great stuff! ASP has always been my favorite channel!

That was heavy, excellent as always John

3:24....he's right. I was in a traffic accident and was CONVINCED I had been rear ended. This without any visible damage to my rear end and I wasn't injured. This was impossible as the other vehicle was going over 70 mph and I was stopped. Adrenaline screwed my head up so much I reported it as a hit and run to police. It wasn't until about an hour or so later I calmed down enough to realize that lady never actually hit me. YOU CANNOT TALK TO POLICE THE MOMENT OF COMBAT. WAIT TILL LATER.

Wow John...I needed this knowledge!!

This is a great series John! Thanks for sharing it!

10:44 sorry John but this is not true. She got at least one hit, killing one of the home invaders. There's an interview with her here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RsreAFzubXM.html

I was in a highly stressful situation once where all I really needed to do was find a big red button and press it. Couldn’t find it. Fingers felt like big German sausages.

Thanks for posting this on youtube.

You can't miss fast enough to win...

Amazing video John, thank you!

This is a great video. Everybody should watch it really quality stuff. Thank you, John.

Adrenaline Dump is better then any drug on the planet. Train :) Love you John

Nice stuff. I try to take that moment in a bunch of regular daily life scenarios. It’s like, check check check…. Here we go.

Go find work. Love it.

One guy ran past her he could have easily turned around n got her. Always be prepared to have multiple opponents and have extra ammo on your person.

What’s the quote about keeping your head when everyone around you is losing theirs

Thank God no one was hurt

Great video thank you sir!

The lady did shoot one of the home invaders and he died.

This is real deal stuff right here. ANYONE who owes a gun or carries with the idea of using it for self preservation should be watching this video series and PAYING ATTENTION.

Maybe I've had a few more adrenaline dumps than average but in 2005 (iirc) i was involved in an accident on Ft Bragg when the hmmwv in front of me stopped suddenly. I served but still clipped the drivers side rear corner which crumpled the passenger front of my truck and nearly put the air filter in my TC's lap. As soon as we stopped i turned off the engine and yelled "you ok?" at my TC. Once i knew he was ok i jumped out to check on the other truck. In 2017 a man pulled a gun on me trying to rob the pharmacy i worked at. While giving my statement to the police they said "you're a lot more put together than the people we usually talk to in these situations."

2:25 we are not talking about the pee pee. We talk about the pew pew

TO sum up--KEEP YOUR COOL!

I thought that lady killed one of the intruders? That's what the report said, I believe

I used to shoot a lot when I lived in Texas and did krav maga. I was in LA once on a krav seminar and Scott Reitz was in the room. He is the top LAPD firearms expert and he had told us he had been in 3 or 4 shootings. He said most shootings are very close, and over in a second or two. He also said that when they asked the cops involved how many rounds they fired they were often wildly wrong - one would say 2 shots and they would ask, :Well why were you on your second magazine then? Or the guy thought he fired 10 times but fired 4.

It’s terribly sad that it’s being reported that the Police waited almost an hour before going into the school there at uvaldia Tx. How do you live with what your chief made you do. 😎😎

Do you have an instructor course in AZ that you teach?

Looks like RU-vid is playing games with the main channel morning upload again, smh

Awesome stuff 👍

Thanks for posting

On my job I saw this young 20ish valet pull his handgun on a guy after laughing at him for yelling, from across the street. The guy charged the valet for laughing at him, valet pulled the gun and the guy backed off REAL fast. Huge attitude adjustment. The only time I have ever seen a gun defensively used, not by cops. I wanted to take that valet aside and say, hey, do you realize your life almost changed because you are armed and decided to mock a guy you don't know? Luckily he didn't pull the trigger and had the emotional control not to. If I had to testify I would have to say I don't think based on my knowledge of self defense and the law and psychology and use of force that a gun was justified. (OC spray would definitely have been against an unarmed crazy attacker).

Rattlesnake rattle is your FA2FO warning

Where is the full class/video ?

John Is KING!

The thing about adrenaline dumps is that the less experience you have in real situations the bigger it will be. Things that used to give me a full adrenaline dump with tunnel vision, today won't even make my heart beat faster. I am not trying to brag, but that is the truth. At the same time, there are situations where a thought can give me adrenaline, where it would not to others. It is odd. What I am saying is adrenaline is hard to deal with.

Awesome info!!! Now what’s going on John??? Are you intentionally changing the daily upload time to 9 pm now??? I tried to ask yesterday but never got a response, so trying here today Lol Neil, John, Stephanie??? Anybody Lol

Didn’t this guy just say in a previous vid in this series that he’s never seen a reload required in a self defense incident? He just showed a vid of it happening.

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I live and love in gods country… Houston Texas ,but unfortunately the enemy will rear its ugly head whenever the enemy sees fit… but if you got spiritual , mental fitness and work hard and believe… you will always prosper in gods country, no matter the opposition

It saddens me to know so many civvies cannot put accurate rounds on targets under stress. That American store owner needs a shit ton of training. Training is cheap. Missing the target while dumping your mag is an expensive mistake. I admit that I take for granted the thousands or rounds I put down range to become proficient in dropping dog targets using iron sights, ACOGs, and while wearing a M40A1 in the dark. I always assumed my training was normal. I stand corrected.

I'm pretty sure the Asian lady shot and killed one guy.

Place is dead quiet after he said mass Shoting

Interestingly the military teaches 'suppression fire'. Virtually all rounds fired in the military are not aimed at anyone. 18000 rounds per hit in Korea. It got worse in Viet Nam. Seriously. Look at those numbers. The military have pragmatic reasons to suggest that firing to make the enemy keep his head down and not attack works. That said, in a self defense situation you are responsible for every round you fire, unlike the military. Remember, the police and courts are not on your side. They are on the side of the people that pay them directly and the people who can make their lives bad, i.e. the government and the press.

Uvalde = you val day

*cough*reload*cough*

Count your Rounds when you train ? that would help. ?

I’m no expert but 😬 If you have to qualify “small bullet- big world” with “it’s a bad idea” or some form of it- why even say it? If you want to teach people to be responsible for every single round, I’d think it’s counter productive. Because if even one person in the audience internalizes the first half but not the second (because that’s how eidetic phrases work) isnt it one too many?

"I swear to God." 😔

Big question John… have you ever actually been in any of these video scenarios ie, a gun fight? I’ve trained tactically and all the instructors were LEOs and SWAT. No PowerPoints or long lectures just laws, criminal mindset discussions and lots of range time.

Change gun for Jesus and this is a southern Baptist church service.

Pee pee 😂

Redacting random words? Keeps it comprehensible please.

U Val Dee

Why do these instructors have to try to be comedians?

There is no amount of practice can prepare you for real world fool's

Karen