Rioters, Vehicles, and Self Defense

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Protesters Blocking Traffic: What can your vehicle do as a self-defense weapon against a mob

Today:

Mobs have been moving around as protests for months now.  The violence seems more and more eminent.  The chances of you getting stuck in one of these “protests” seems more and more likely.

What can you do if you find yourself in the middle of a protest with the protesters blocking traffic and starting to turn violent toward you?

This is an impossible dilemma.  It’s like the Kobayashi Maru in Star Trek.  The situation is designed for you to have a no one option and see how you do.  This one could be the options of getting killed or spending the rest of your life in prison.  The more I look at what is going on the more I think it has been designed that way be people that are manipulating the crowds or the agitators in the crowds. 

You have to take responsibility for yourself and the only true way to win these situations is not to play.   Even if you do everything right and defend yourself you still will have law enfocement and the media to deal with for a long time.

Keep up with your avoidance and awareness and stay away from locations of protests that could turn into riots.  Don’t get into a fight is the only way to ensure you will win.

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Legal:

• Not a lawyer
• Get Legal Protection:
  • Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network
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• Review: Ability, Opportunity, Jeopardy
• Crowds vs Individuals
• Reality:
  • People using vehicles against crowds are being arrested
  • Check out the McCloskey case in St. Louis
  • It’s going to be painful and expensive if you use your vehicle to defend yourself
  • Just because you think it should be right doesn’t mean it is legal
  • You are guilty until proven innocent
  • Fail Trial is a myth; the jury pool is tainted
  • 12 Licensed drivers that were not smart enough to get out of jury duty are going to decide your fate
  • There is no jury of your pears when it comes to self defense

Avoidance

• Don’t be there
• Blend in and be patient
• Be Vigilant
• Agree with the crowd
• Avoid the fight at all costs except the your live or the lives of your loved ones
• Lock the doors and windows, don’t open them

Tactics

• Use the vehicle to escape first and foremost
• Don’t run over people but curbs, pushing cars, or going through bushes and open areas if at all possible
• Know your vehicle and what it is capable of
• Always leave yourself an out
• Bumping People
• Rubbing People
• Running over the crowd
• Crushing people
• Vehicle damage
• Individual Threats
  • Might have to go to the gun then your vehicle to escape
  • No Warning shots
  • No threatening with the gun, use it or hide it
• Vehicle Disabled and Threats
  • Everyone out the same door and side away from the crowd or where the crowd is smallest
  • Move, don’t stay there, get away from the vehicle and the crowd
  • Don’t let anyone stop you once violence has started
  • The crowd is deadly force
• Once you start to use violence:
  • Shock force, violence of action, and speed are your friends
  • Use as much violence as possible to scare off the rest of the crowd
  • You can’t take the entire crowd no matter what you do, you have to bluff
• Call the police as soon as it is safe, not in the middle of the fight.

No win scenario is the tactics being used

“The only winning move is not to play.” – Joshua, the computer from the movie Wargames

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Stay Safe,

Ben P.S.  I just set up a self-defense handgun course for Sep 2020 in San Antonio, check it out