November 1, 2025 • 9 mins
In this episode we tell the stories of three individuals that put their right to bear arms into practice to protect their life and liberty.
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(00:00):
Welcome to the Live Shootpodcast.
My name is Jeff Dole and I'vebeen a licensed firearm dealer
for the last 18 years.
And this podcast is talkingabout all things related, the
amendment, anything else goingin the world, sports story or
anything else I might findinteresting.
So welcome, welcome, welcome.
So wanna jump into, I've beenaccumulating a lot of stories
here over the last few months.
In fact, I, I collect stories,new stories.
(00:21):
I have a newsletter you can signup for it in the, show notes I
send out every week as well withjust stories.
And so throughout the week Icollect stories.
I save them into a, a GoogleDoc, and then I go pull those
out for this podcast for thenewsletter.
And.
That document is, I, I thinkit's almost a hundred pages long
(00:42):
now of stories.
But let's jump into, you know,the second Amendment.
And, you know, one of the greatthings about the Second
Amendment is, and the purpose ofit is self-defense.
So, you know, we go back to ourfounding fathers and, and we
look at why, why did they putthe Second Amendment into the
Constitution, into the Bill ofRights?
And people keep, you know, JoeBiden, you know about hunting
(01:05):
and, you know, having yourshotgun and, and all that.
And it was really aboutdefending your liberty and your
freedom.
And the founding fathers wereabout.
It'd come from a place where theking had come in to confiscate
their arms and they weren'tgonna allow it to happen.
And so they put in that the,your right to bear arms would
(01:26):
not be infringed by this newgovernment that they were
creating.
They were making a promise.
To us that they could, theywould not do that.
And as comes with that, is theability to defend yourself from
tyrant or anybody else that'strying to take you away, your
freedom or your liberty.
And so let's talk jump into somepeople that were have been using
(01:47):
the Second Amendment for thatvery purpose.
So let's go to cocoa Florida.
It's in the Gulf Coast.
And.
You're 22-year-old guy andyou're minding your own
business.
You're in the parking lot ofsome apartments and right in
front of building 1634 and upcomes this guy you've got some
history with, he's dumb.
He's been trying to create abeef with you and outta the
(02:09):
shadow steps.
Dry Smith, he's 21 years old andhe's got a full on rifle.
Not a toy, a real rifle.
And he is got it pointed rightat us.
Okay?
And he's like, he's trying toaudition as some bad guy from a
Michael Bay movie.
And so what are you gonna do?
Do you run, do you cover?
He.
No, you draw your legallycarried handgun and you drop the
(02:32):
threat before he can even pullthe trigger.
Boom.
One shot self-defense.
Pure and simple.
He got hauled off to CapeCanaveral Hospital by a witness,
but it's too late.
Game over for the aggressor nowthe cocoa pd.
Kicks off a homicideinvestigation as you would
expect.
But here's the beauty floor.
It's got their stand your groundon the books and prelims are
(02:53):
screaming.
You know, this was a lawfulself-defense.
No duty to retreat when death,or great bodily harm is, is
staring you down.
So the shooters cooperating,guns recovered, and as of now,
no charges.
Zip, zilch.
That's the second amendment.
Doing its job.
So let's stay in Florida andwe're gonna go to where, you
know, there's been a bunch ofaction.
(03:14):
And this is in front of aMcDonald's in Davenport, Polk
County.
Another 21-year-old.
He's making Big Macs, the localMcDonald's when two, you know,
guys, Peter Story and NicholasJones.
Both, you know, under 21 rollup.
Through the drive through place,the slammed online orders are
piling up.
Soto does the right thing.
He says, sorry fellas, we're toobacked up.
(03:37):
Come back later.
But these two geniuses aren'thaving it.
They threatened to beat Soto'sass and vowed away in the
parking lot.
After he shift in threat check,then they barge.
Inside escalating, the beefmanager's scrambling to play
peacemaker.
One of them starts yapping abouthaving a switch, which is the
illegal auto.
See on that, turns a Glock intoa machine gun and a 30 round
(03:59):
mag.
Loaded for bear and not thefriendly kind.
So Soto, no fool, he grabs hisgun from the back.
Legally, mind you points ittheir way to deescalate.
But words fail, things gophysical.
Surveillance catches it all.
Soto advances shove, tussle, andthe gun goes off.
Story takes one of the neck.
It's not life threatening, thankgoodness.
(04:21):
But, and he's expected to make afull recovery.
Soto smart enough to scoop upthe casing after that, but that
lands him in for a tamperingCharge the deal.
Disorderly conduct trespassing,though works now.
Polk County, sheriff Grady died.
He's a two, a legend and callsit straight.
He said Soto had every right tostand his ground.
(04:43):
Those threats create awell-founded fear of violence.
No official ruling yet, butJudds word, it's gold.
This isn't some Wild Westshootout.
It was a hardworking kidprotecting himself from a couple
of entitled hotheads who thoughtfast food came with a side of
felonies.
If concealed Carry wasn't on themenu that night, soda might've
been waiting in the parking lotNow.
(05:07):
Sheriff Judd, he's one, got someof the best one-liners.
He said It was just a mess.
Love it.
But that then now let's head upnorth to Shreveport, Louisiana,
where the stakes get even higherNow.
This is back in the summer, six30 in the morning.
Dawn's cracking and, and you'rea homeowner and you're just
sitting and sipping coffee whenan argument from the night
(05:27):
before boils over the aggressor,rolls up to your house, strapped
with his own gun, and startsblasting holes in your front
door.
Shots ring out like fireworks onthe fourth.
Your home.
Your castle under siege, you'regonna hide in the closet.
Nope.
You grab your defensive tool, areturn fire, a right, a return
fire through the door and nailthe dirt bag in the lower leg.
(05:49):
He crumples bleeds out his decibad decisions and cops haul him
off on attempted second degreemurder and felon in possession.
Shards your wing too.
But docs say you're gonna pullthrough.
This was a te another textbook,castle Doctrine Patriot no
Retreat in his own house.
The Second Amendment turns apotential massacre into a
misdemeanor for the bad guy andget this while the Feds love low
(06:12):
balling these stats, FBI hasbeen caught under reporting
Armed citizen stops like this asthe j like it's their day job.
Real life keeps proving wrong.
One armed homeowner, oneexchange, volley and evil takes
a knee.
If you're not training for thatsplit second decision, go to the
range tomorrow.
So now for our last heartPounder Road Rage on Steroids.
(06:35):
This is in Pennsylvania.
Again, back in the summer, it'sanother three 30 in the morning.
You know nothing good happenswhen you're out this late and
you're in your Prius.
You're minding your you'reminding the merges when some
road warrior and an Audi, hedecides you're his personal
pinata.
He tells you for two blocks,rams you onto the curb, into a
demolition jury jumps out,swinging a metal baseball bat.
(06:59):
Full Lou Gehrig starts caving inyour jarvis's door.
Breaks your glass shatteringmetals crunching.
Bat inches from your skull, fearfor your life, understatement of
the year.
You draw your legally heldhandgun.
Squeeze the trigger and drop thebat.
Slinger cold, he hits thepavement.
Done.
Smart move you peel out.
Park a block away, dial 9 1 1and hand over your gun to the
(07:22):
badges.
They cuff you initial like, butthe Lehigh Valley da reviews the
tape and says, justified nocharge.
You're a free man alive becauseyou exercised your God-given,
right Pennsylvania's gotreciprocity with 30 concealed
states and that concealed carryfor, for turning roadkill into
road warriors.
Without that equalizer, you'd beeven news, even evening news
(07:45):
tonight.
So thank the aggressors thatthey, those, they think they're
untouchable.
They meet the equalizer.
So we were in Florida twice,Louisiana, Pennsylvania
apartments, asphalt McDonald's.
Every place you could possiblyimagine places had to pe people
had to use their their selves,their their second amendment
(08:05):
rights to defend themselves.
That just proves what the SecondAmendment can't do.
It can protect you when thingsgo bad.
Now, these are some crazystories.
This didn't happen every day andI don't necessarily always agree
with, with the way some of thesewere handled out, but, but
again.
I'm not there making thatdecision when things get heated.
(08:27):
But you need to think throughwhat would you do if you were in
this case and people werethreatening you and you had
access to your legally carriedfirearm.
Pulling the trigger is no easydecision because there's
ramifications.
Things may go bad for you, butI'd rather be in jail facing
some sort of, a gun charge thanbeing dead.
And especially if my family'swith me, that's even more
(08:49):
important.
I've gotta protect them and I'vegotta protect my life.
Those are my priorities.
So we continue to celebrate theSecond Amendment with this
podcast.
Share these stories to everybodyto encourage you.
To continue to defend the SecondAmendment because it's vital.
The cops are not on minutesaway.
(09:09):
They can be even hours awaypotentially.
And you've gotta have theability to defend yourself when
things go bad.
So take care, subscribe to thispodcast, share it with others,
do what you need to do.
And we will be back again nextweek.
Welcome to the Live Shootpodcast.
My name is Jeff Dole and I'vebeen a licensed firearm dealer
for the last 18 years.
And this podcast is talkingabout all things related, the
amendment, anything else goingin the world, sports story or
anything else I might findinteresting.
So welcome, welcome, welcome.
So wanna jump into, I've beenaccumulating a lot of stories
here over the last few months.
In fact, I, I collect stories,new stories.
(00:21):
I have a newsletter you can signup for it in the, show notes I
send out every week as well withjust stories.
And so throughout the week Icollect stories.
I save them into a, a GoogleDoc, and then I go pull those
out for this podcast for thenewsletter.
And.
That document is, I, I thinkit's almost a hundred pages long
(00:42):
now of stories.
But let's jump into, you know,the second Amendment.
And, you know, one of the greatthings about the Second
Amendment is, and the purpose ofit is self-defense.
So, you know, we go back to ourfounding fathers and, and we
look at why, why did they putthe Second Amendment into the
Constitution, into the Bill ofRights?
And people keep, you know, JoeBiden, you know about hunting
(01:05):
and, you know, having yourshotgun and, and all that.
And it was really aboutdefending your liberty and your
freedom.
And the founding fathers wereabout.
It'd come from a place where theking had come in to confiscate
their arms and they weren'tgonna allow it to happen.
And so they put in that the,your right to bear arms would
(01:26):
not be infringed by this newgovernment that they were
creating.
They were making a promise.
To us that they could, theywould not do that.
And as comes with that, is theability to defend yourself from
tyrant or anybody else that'strying to take you away, your
freedom or your liberty.
And so let's talk jump into somepeople that were have been using
(01:47):
the Second Amendment for thatvery purpose.
So let's go to cocoa Florida.
It's in the Gulf Coast.
And.
You're 22-year-old guy andyou're minding your own
business.
You're in the parking lot ofsome apartments and right in
front of building 1634 and upcomes this guy you've got some
history with, he's dumb.
He's been trying to create abeef with you and outta the
(02:09):
shadow steps.
Dry Smith, he's 21 years old andhe's got a full on rifle.
Not a toy, a real rifle.
And he is got it pointed rightat us.
Okay?
And he's like, he's trying toaudition as some bad guy from a
Michael Bay movie.
And so what are you gonna do?
Do you run, do you cover?
He.
No, you draw your legallycarried handgun and you drop the
(02:32):
threat before he can even pullthe trigger.
Boom.
One shot self-defense.
Pure and simple.
He got hauled off to CapeCanaveral Hospital by a witness,
but it's too late.
Game over for the aggressor nowthe cocoa pd.
Kicks off a homicideinvestigation as you would
expect.
But here's the beauty floor.
It's got their stand your groundon the books and prelims are
(02:53):
screaming.
You know, this was a lawfulself-defense.
No duty to retreat when death,or great bodily harm is, is
staring you down.
So the shooters cooperating,guns recovered, and as of now,
no charges.
Zip, zilch.
That's the second amendment.
Doing its job.
So let's stay in Florida andwe're gonna go to where, you
know, there's been a bunch ofaction.
(03:14):
And this is in front of aMcDonald's in Davenport, Polk
County.
Another 21-year-old.
He's making Big Macs, the localMcDonald's when two, you know,
guys, Peter Story and NicholasJones.
Both, you know, under 21 rollup.
Through the drive through place,the slammed online orders are
piling up.
Soto does the right thing.
He says, sorry fellas, we're toobacked up.
(03:37):
Come back later.
But these two geniuses aren'thaving it.
They threatened to beat Soto'sass and vowed away in the
parking lot.
After he shift in threat check,then they barge.
Inside escalating, the beefmanager's scrambling to play
peacemaker.
One of them starts yapping abouthaving a switch, which is the
illegal auto.
See on that, turns a Glock intoa machine gun and a 30 round
(03:59):
mag.
Loaded for bear and not thefriendly kind.
So Soto, no fool, he grabs hisgun from the back.
Legally, mind you points ittheir way to deescalate.
But words fail, things gophysical.
Surveillance catches it all.
Soto advances shove, tussle, andthe gun goes off.
Story takes one of the neck.
It's not life threatening, thankgoodness.
(04:21):
But, and he's expected to make afull recovery.
Soto smart enough to scoop upthe casing after that, but that
lands him in for a tamperingCharge the deal.
Disorderly conduct trespassing,though works now.
Polk County, sheriff Grady died.
He's a two, a legend and callsit straight.
He said Soto had every right tostand his ground.
(04:43):
Those threats create awell-founded fear of violence.
No official ruling yet, butJudds word, it's gold.
This isn't some Wild Westshootout.
It was a hardworking kidprotecting himself from a couple
of entitled hotheads who thoughtfast food came with a side of
felonies.
If concealed Carry wasn't on themenu that night, soda might've
been waiting in the parking lotNow.
(05:07):
Sheriff Judd, he's one, got someof the best one-liners.
He said It was just a mess.
Love it.
But that then now let's head upnorth to Shreveport, Louisiana,
where the stakes get even higherNow.
This is back in the summer, six30 in the morning.
Dawn's cracking and, and you'rea homeowner and you're just
sitting and sipping coffee whenan argument from the night
(05:27):
before boils over the aggressor,rolls up to your house, strapped
with his own gun, and startsblasting holes in your front
door.
Shots ring out like fireworks onthe fourth.
Your home.
Your castle under siege, you'regonna hide in the closet.
Nope.
You grab your defensive tool, areturn fire, a right, a return
fire through the door and nailthe dirt bag in the lower leg.
(05:49):
He crumples bleeds out his decibad decisions and cops haul him
off on attempted second degreemurder and felon in possession.
Shards your wing too.
But docs say you're gonna pullthrough.
This was a te another textbook,castle Doctrine Patriot no
Retreat in his own house.
The Second Amendment turns apotential massacre into a
misdemeanor for the bad guy andget this while the Feds love low
(06:12):
balling these stats, FBI hasbeen caught under reporting
Armed citizen stops like this asthe j like it's their day job.
Real life keeps proving wrong.
One armed homeowner, oneexchange, volley and evil takes
a knee.
If you're not training for thatsplit second decision, go to the
range tomorrow.
So now for our last heartPounder Road Rage on Steroids.
(06:35):
This is in Pennsylvania.
Again, back in the summer, it'sanother three 30 in the morning.
You know nothing good happenswhen you're out this late and
you're in your Prius.
You're minding your you'reminding the merges when some
road warrior and an Audi, hedecides you're his personal
pinata.
He tells you for two blocks,rams you onto the curb, into a
demolition jury jumps out,swinging a metal baseball bat.
(06:59):
Full Lou Gehrig starts caving inyour jarvis's door.
Breaks your glass shatteringmetals crunching.
Bat inches from your skull, fearfor your life, understatement of
the year.
You draw your legally heldhandgun.
Squeeze the trigger and drop thebat.
Slinger cold, he hits thepavement.
Done.
Smart move you peel out.
Park a block away, dial 9 1 1and hand over your gun to the
(07:22):
badges.
They cuff you initial like, butthe Lehigh Valley da reviews the
tape and says, justified nocharge.
You're a free man alive becauseyou exercised your God-given,
right Pennsylvania's gotreciprocity with 30 concealed
states and that concealed carryfor, for turning roadkill into
road warriors.
Without that equalizer, you'd beeven news, even evening news
(07:45):
tonight.
So thank the aggressors thatthey, those, they think they're
untouchable.
They meet the equalizer.
So we were in Florida twice,Louisiana, Pennsylvania
apartments, asphalt McDonald's.
Every place you could possiblyimagine places had to pe people
had to use their their selves,their their second amendment
(08:05):
rights to defend themselves.
That just proves what the SecondAmendment can't do.
It can protect you when thingsgo bad.
Now, these are some crazystories.
This didn't happen every day andI don't necessarily always agree
with, with the way some of thesewere handled out, but, but
again.
I'm not there making thatdecision when things get heated.
(08:27):
But you need to think throughwhat would you do if you were in
this case and people werethreatening you and you had
access to your legally carriedfirearm.
Pulling the trigger is no easydecision because there's
ramifications.
Things may go bad for you, butI'd rather be in jail facing
some sort of, a gun charge thanbeing dead.
And especially if my family'swith me, that's even more
(08:49):
important.
I've gotta protect them and I'vegotta protect my life.
Those are my priorities.
So we continue to celebrate theSecond Amendment with this
podcast.
Share these stories to everybodyto encourage you.
To continue to defend the SecondAmendment because it's vital.
The cops are not on minutesaway.
(09:09):
They can be even hours awaypotentially.
And you've gotta have theability to defend yourself when
things go bad.
So take care, subscribe to thispodcast, share it with others,
do what you need to do.
And we will be back again nextweek.
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