Oh, and just to clarify, I wasn’t responding to the fact he didn’t have a gun, but to your assertion he couldn’t get one in CA. That is simply not true. CCWs on the other hand, as I have mentioned, are almost impossible to get in one of the blue counties.
Alas, CCW is the essential part of how the individual citizen is able to “keep tyranny in check”, as a Founder nicely said. Those people knew tyranny never rests, and whether it was government, Indians (now Muslims), or wild animals - in all cases, immediate armed response was their choice, and they wrote the Constitution to reflect that.
Only a handgun carried regularly can provide ability to suppress tyranny before it is imposed. That goat flock owner can verify the validity and accuracy of the above.
Lastly, ask yourself why I can have 30 & 40 round magazines and you can’t? Ditto for detachable magazine fed shotguns, and sooo many other examples of creeping communism expressed in gun regulations.
We all wish you the best of luck rolling back your state from its seemingly last swirl down the toilet of collectivism.