Yesterday, after finishing qualifying students on the range, I decided to purchase another pistol. I paid for the gun, completed the paperwork, and left the store without the gun.
Since I'm in California, I have to wait ten days before I can pick it up. They call it a "cooling off period". As I understand it, the ten days is to allow me to "cool off" in case I'm purchasing the gun with an intention to use it for some violent act.
The problem with that idea is pretty simple when you consider that I was legally carrying a gun when I bought the new one. In fact, I had to provide my California CCW permit in order to avoid having to take the little test required for what California calls a "Firearms Safety Certificate".
Since California required me to provide my CCW permit, the state knows that I already have guns and that I actually carry one on my person in public. This leads me to an inescapable conclusion. State leaders are too stupid to understand this basic truth. If I wanted to use a gun for some criminal act, I could use the gun I was carrying. I wouldn't need the new one.
So, tell me again... why am I being forced to wait ten days?
In the first half, attorney Sean Maloney from Second Call Defense joins me to explain the lessons gun owners can learn from what happened to Kyle Rittenhouse.
In the second half, I discuss a home invasion case from Oceanside California in which the homeowner successfully defended himself.
Apparently, the shooter randomly shot nine people before a police officer gave him a much-needed lead injection. According to the news story, the suspect, who survived being shot by police (at least so far) has “a prior conviction for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.”
Three questions:
1. This joker has a violent criminal history. Why was he in possession of a firearm?
2. Why isn't Tucson Mayor Regina Romero (D) concerned about the answer to Question 1?
3. When will anti-gun politicians stop using tragedies like this to push for more gun control, which she did?
Actually, that last question answers itself.
At Lucille’s Bar & Grill, an armed citizen stopped a man who was allegedly threatening people with a knife. The attacker was shot and killed; no other injuries reported.
What I find most interest is the presence of an off-duty police officer who apparently did nothing. Thank God for the armed citizen.
"Skippy, you're not afraid of the outsider. You're afraid to hope. Giving in to fear is easy. You just accept there's nothing you can do, doom is inevitable, and there's no point in making any effort. If you dare to hope, then you risk your hopes getting crushed."
— Craig Alanson’s fictional character, Major General Joe Bishop (Expeditionary Force)
