Self-Defense and Church Security Lessons by John Correia Reviewing an Attempted Carjacking

Active Self Protection‘s mission is to help others develop the Attitude, Skills, and Plan to better protect themselves and their loved ones from harm. Its founder and owner, John Correia, posts online real defensive encounters that are recorded on camera and performs after-action analyses that identify self-defense lessons learned from them.

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The following video is of an attempted carjacking and the lessons that can be applied to your own self-defense or church security volunteer team best practices:

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Here is a summary of John Correia’s analysis points from the video:

•   See the definition of Good, Sane, Sober, Moral, Prudent Self-Defense.

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•   Be extra attentive (look, listen, smell, even gut sensations) to possible threats when you’re in transitional spaces such as entering and exiting a car, a building, etc.

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•   Paying attention buys you time (as in spatial distance from a threat) and time buys you protective and defensive options.

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•   Don’t be paranoid in your situational awareness; be curious. Identify a pattern (a baseline) in a situation, then recognize anomalies (threat indicators—the presence or absence of something off-pattern) to that baseline.

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•   Be mindful of the Cooper Color Code.

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•   Deal with the biggest threat first.

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•   Maintain a solid shooting grip and a stable shooting stance to achieve accurate defensive action. “It is hard to miss fast enough to win a gunfight, but it is easy to hit slow enough to lose one.” Be both fast and accurate with marksmanship fundamentals.

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•   FIBSA: Fudge, I’m Being Shot At. FIBS: Fudge, I’ve Been Shot. A reminder to carry a sufficient number of rounds to defensively end a threat. More capacity equals more options.

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•   Always be able to reasonably articulate the rationale for every defensive action you make (such as moving the bad guy’s gun once he is neutralized). Ensure scene safety.

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•   Remember the gunfight acronym: TAP-IFFS

• Threat — Is the threat down? Did I hit him/her? Do I need to shoot him/her again?
• Accomplices — Did the threat bring his/her buddies to the fight? What are his/her buddies doing?
• Partner — Is my partner OK? Is he/she in need of my assistance?
• Injured — Am I or someone else injured? Do I need to deal with their injuries?
• Firearm — What condition is my gun in? Is it still in functional form, or did I have a malfunction that I need to fix? Do I need to perform a proactive magazine reload?
• Followup — What’s important for me to be doing right now to make myself safer?
• Seek help — Call 9-1-1.

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