 Welcome back guys to the 21 convention before our next speaker was a teaching pickup with Neil Strauss himself for a couple years He was actually training law enforcement and military personnel how to kill without further ado. Here's Bravo the man himself Thank you for that awesome introduction, which I help right All right Before I got into pickup. I was actually a full-time firearms instructor. I'm a CCW instructor. I have three NRA Certifications, I'm a taser instructor edge weapon instructor low light. I went around and helped teach various military and law enforcement SWAT teams special forces group hostage rescue room clearing all that kind of fun stuff Did this just go out or is it still on? Okay So When I actually I got divorced too and that's how I got into this whole pickup stuff But beforehand this is what I did and we're talking about doing a cool like self-defense Awareness and also how to pick your first firearm So I was really trying to put all that together in this presentation if you guys have questions when I'm going through this stuff I'm gonna try to have a large Q&A section at the end. So write them down Don't so you don't forget them. I'm happy to answer as much as I can First off who here has ever fired a gun in their life before raise your hand Awesome I'm from Arizona, which is a pretty pro-gun place. So that's pretty cool How many people here have ever studied martial arts before raise your hand? All right, hopefully I don't make any of you mad when I rip on some of the bad ones Anyways, when I first got into Tactical training, this is something I always thought was if you cannot protect yourself for your loved ones you're not a man and You guys all heard about that court case a little bit ago Where the two drug dealers like kidnapped the wife went to the bank pulled out all this money Went did math came back raped the wife raped the kids set the house on fire the husband got out And then he lived everyone else died that whole court case just recently happened one of the senators houses Just got broken into like two three days ago And it was the grandson that came out with a shotgun and like actually protected him with a gun So that was always one of my things was if I can't protect myself I can't protect the people I care about I just didn't feel complete So I took this on my own to figure out how to defend myself how to defend my loved ones And if you guys want to do that, too If you especially would do in a firearm that I get asked this all the time What should you do go to a range and actually pay someone to teach you how to do it? Just like I got a motorcycle a little bit ago I didn't just go down to the dealership hop on it and ride home I went to the riding class learn how to do it responsibly so that way I don't kill myself or kill someone else This thing blew me away when I learned this the police have no duty to protect you. It's a little hard to see but that's a really overweight police officer eating a turkey leg and I have no confidence that someone like that is Gonna come to my rescue and help me and most of us have seen officers where they're pretty overweight and out of shape And you think they're gonna be there and help you out My brother's actually a cop my ex-father-in-law is a cop. I've trained more than I can count my brother's also a lawyer And a firefighter. That's what I had to compete with growing up But this blew me away when I learned this because we're all we're all brought up to think that when you call 9-1-1 The cops are gonna come there and help you well That's if they get there they might be dealing with something down the street and my brother would tell me that he would get a call It would take 20-30 minutes before you get to the house. So the whole time he's thinking like hopefully they can make it until then so when we're teaching the CCW classes we get into this kind of stuff and What I would recommend is you guys when you get home all Google this phrase The police have no duty to protect and just read all the shit that comes up But these are the two big ones and this is actually from the ACLU website, which I don't like the ACLU Just to show you how that other people besides crazy gun guys think about this Jessica Gonzales versus the USA and I'll just read it to you guys real quick June 1999 Jessica Gonzales's three daughters age 7 9 and 10 were abducted by her estranged husband and killed after the Colorado police refused to enforce restraining order against them Although Gonzales repeatedly called the police telling them of her fears for daughter safety. They failed to respond Hours later Gonzales's husband drove his pickup truck to the police department in open fire He was shot dead by the police the slain bodies of the three girls were subsequently discovered in the back of his pickup truck Gonzales filed a lawsuit against the police, but in June 2005 the US Supreme Court ruled She had no constitutional right to police enforcement of her restraining order That sucks because you think everything we've heard get a restraining order That's gonna keep them away, but the cops can only enforce it if they see the person there So a lot of times they'll call and say hey someone shows up my house. I have an order against them by the time the cops show up They're already gone Nothing they can do So the cops can only enforce the laws they see them being broken now. Some of you guys might be thinking too. Well, I don't have restraining orders I don't have to worry about that What about someone else? Warren versus the district of Columbia March 16th 1975 Carolyn Warren and Joan Talifero who are roommates and Marine Douglas and her four-year-old daughter who lived on another floor We're awakened by the back door being broken down by two men later identified as Marvin Kent and James Morse They entered Douglas's second-floor room where Kent forced Douglas to sodomize them and then raped her So that's fucked up obviously with the sodomize. That's Extra fucked Warren and Telefino heard Douglas's screams from the floor below and they called the police They ended up going outside like the balcony. There's like this adjoining roof They waited outside and actually watched a police car do a slow drive-by past the back of the house The cops never even got out. They just drove by real slow Another officer knocked on the front door, but left when no one answered a few minutes later So they called the police a second time saying what the fuck? Someone's getting raped and attacked come back here Well that what that 911 call got miscategorized as an investigate trouble. It was never even dispatched a Little while later after the screaming stopped. They thought the police were there They called down which ended up alerting Kent of their presence for the next 14 hours They were raped robbed beaten and forced to commit sexual acts upon one another and the four-year-old daughter was there After this all happened they left they ended up recovering calling for help Sue the police department the court held that the police are not liable for failure to provide adequate police protection So it sucks, but you're on your own you got to learn how to defend yourself You got to learn how to take care of yourself and then afterwards What I always recommend is then calling the police and letting them know Hey, I just use my gun or whatever and then deal with it That's at least my thought because I've trained a lot of cops and I don't feel safe around a lot of them So how can we defend ourselves? So the first step is to actually be aware and they have the different levels of awareness the first one is white Unaware and oblivious to your surroundings and I'm gonna give you guys the first analogy for this And I want you guys to help me out with another one, but white people who are in the level of awareness. It's white That's like the people who drive in their car and they run out of gas Has anyone here ever run out of gas driving their car? I had a couple Snickers Okay, I've never done that. That's I can't even understand how people do that But it's also like maybe you're just not paying attention for a minute. You miss your exit So that makes a little bit more sense to him. So if you're just zoning out for a minute, that's white But really white is like when you're asleep and you're totally not aware what's going on and another good example would be The girl who's jogging with her iPod on at night down the street like anyone can come up behind her and grab her She has no way of even know what's going on But let's stick with the car analogy So yellow is aware of your surroundings and you're alert to new information So does anyone have an example of like a yellow state of awareness if you're driving your car? Perfect driving on the street. You see the light actually change instead of just running it and you see it beforehand So a highway analogy would be I know my exit's coming up. So I get over like a mile beforehand Okay, but that was right on Orange so this one is your impossible danger and you're preparing to act So for this one, maybe you're driving down the freeway and all of a sudden people start slamming on their brakes ahead of you You haven't slammed on your brakes yet, but you're starting to like think like oh something's going on And then finally red fight or flight fee flee defend or attack So this is you're slamming on your brakes someone's next to you You're maybe putting your hand out to stop them from sliding out You're trying to swerve around or something you're acting or you could also they have another color that the Marines and other people Used to is black where people just freeze totally and they do nothing So this is the type of Pearson be like sees people the brake lights going on they don't even react They just freeze and slam into a full force which you guys have seen car accidents before it happens a lot So for being aware of your surroundings the the example for this would be White we're out at the bar. We're never in white yellow. We're aware of our surroundings So maybe you're in the bar and you see like this big group of guys kind of dressed up like thugs and gang bangers or whatever come in and You just happen to notice it because you're already scanning it and then when they get your attention you focus on them Now you're an orange Maybe they're making a ruckus making a lot of noise acting dumb stuff starts throwing around now You're like in heavy orange and you're like, okay I might have to act in a second and then when the fight breaks out and you got to either get out of the bar Or fight defend yourself or whatever that would be read Another thing too would just be at your home like I was at home with my ex-wife And it was like two in the morning and I was used to come home And I had an ankle holster I would take it off and I always set it down on my nightstand because when I went To sleep like having it next to the bed So it was like midnight two in the morning something we're watching TV and all of a sudden boom boom boom on the front door