Posted on 01/01/2022 9:07:39 AM PST by SeekAndFind
After decades of blaming gun on the streets for violent crime, and elections of district attorneys who actually believe that crap, Hollywood's elites are finally getting religion on gun ownership.
They're arming up.
According to the Daily Mail:
As Long Angeles crime spirals out of control, even some of the city's wealthiest residents have flocked to Beverly Hills' only gun store to buy firearms to protect themselves and their belongings.
Beverly Hills Guns first opened by appointment only in July 2020, and has seen upscale residents from Santa Monica to the Hollywood Hills increasingly in a panic following some high-profile smash and grabs and violent home invasions in recent weeks, Los Angeles Magazine reports.
Many are self-proclaimed progressives who've never even held a gun before, but who've been so spooked by soaring crime in the famously wealthy enclave that they've decided to arm themselves.
It appears that the gun-control solution these palmy leftists have prescribed for violent crime is drawing a different response.
And with good reason. Violent crime has surged in Los Angeles County, and not just in the crummy parts.
A well-known socialite and philanthropist, Jacqueline Avant, was shot and killed in her own home on Dec. 1 by a career criminal in the terrifying act of cat-burgling, and her home had a security guard.
In October, a star of the reality television show "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" was subject to a similar smash and grab incident in her Beverly Hills home. The criminals departed as millionaires.
A tony Beverly Hills restaurant, Il Pastaio, saw a patron robbed of a $500,000 in a brazen robbery where a gun was put to his head, and another patron was actually shot.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
You don’t find much of this crime (or fear of this type of crime) here in North Idaho. I wonder what it could be that separates us from liberal LaLa Land?
They’ll have to get up to speed after being so relaxed about crime.
Be sure you know who’s coming into your yard before you shoot them.
If guns are outlawed what will we use to shoot liberals.
I don’t walk alone, I take my friends Smith and Wesson with me.
Gun control means taking aim with both hands.
And from Charlton Heston——
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORYVCML8xeE
California is under siege (not only by its DemoNaziCommie polticial party machine’s Election Theft Machine).
It is under siege by criminals (many imported by those same politicians).
The criminals know that:
1. robbery of anything up to $950 in value only results in (at most!) a misdemeanor ticket (like a traffic ticket, you walk away from the police officer with a piece of paper in your pocket, at least until you toss it in the nearest sewer intake around the corner)
2. the majority of ticketed people never bother to answer or show up on court
3. the chances of ever being picked up for the above are minimal
4. the chances of ever being prosecuted are even less
5. serial robberies ... you can rob every jewelry store on Rodeo Drive or in the Palo Alto/Stanford Shopping Center (there are a dozen jewelers in each place), as long as you keep what you take under $950 each time
and you will, at worst, only get a dozen “traffic tickets” which you can toss in the nearest garbage can
6. you can go back the next day and double your loot, rob them all again
without further penalty
7. the SorozNazi-financed District Attorneys probably wouldn’t try to prosecute you anyway
8. if you ever get that far in the legal system, the DA (at least in the larger urban counties with SorozNazi DA’s) will probably just send you to a diversion program (like traffic school)
9. especially if you are a member of a racial “minority group” as these DA’s subscribe to the SorozNazi/Commmunist “racist eqity” doctrine stating that you shouldn’t be prosecuted because other people had slavery in another state in the 18th century
10. many county jails are overcrowded and so the judges probably wouldn’t sentence you to anything worse than temporary probation, anyway
11. a state prison sentence (as contrasted with a county jail sentence) is most unlikely if even possible at all, since your “crime” was only a misdemeanor and the state prisons mostly deal with felony convictions, and many of those are also sent to county jails anyway
12. Governor Newsom has been releasing state prison inmates in large numbers... both via his “pardon power” and “due to Covid virus”
In short, you are free to wheel out your stolen booty in the stores’ own shopping carts and nobody will try to stop you in 99 percent of the cases, and you won’t have to go to jail in any event
ps: the criminals often bring their cell phone calculators or just steal a $9 hand calculator... to make sure they only take $949 from each store at each robbery.
Of course, they have to “clear the display” before going next door and robbing that store of another $949
But fortunately, even stolen $9 calculators have “CLEAR display” keys
They are gonna be shocked. “SHOCKED!” to find they will have to wait ten days after purchase to pick up their handguns.
They voted for it!
***The criminals departed as millionaires.***
They better file it as income on their tax return!
Why you were safer on a NYC trolley car in 1875 than on the street in LA-San Fran today.
I was robbed at a store where I worked in the early 80's. The armed gang (of blacks) robbed the store as well as all the employees and customers. Since that time, it was like I was in the movie They Live in which special eyeglasses revealed that normal looking people were really aliens. I am always scanning for potential perps. I carry at all times, even in my pajamas. If I see someone whose looks I don't like, I keep an eye on them and avoid them. I almost never shop at 7-11 type stores. If I see unsavory looking types approaching, I will cross the street.
Here is where the Hollywood types are going to have a problem: you have to have the courage to not mind being thought of as a racist if someone sees you avoiding them. If I turn around and leave someone will invariably be thinking "what a racist mutha-f***a". You have to be able to not give a s**t what someone you don't know and will likely (hopefully) never see again thinks about you. I don't know that lefties can do that.
I would recommend a "Big Bore" hand gun (40 cal, 44 mag, or 45 ACP) so when it is stolen, it will kill rather than injure when the street criminals use them against themselves.
.......actually using a gun against another human being and possibly killing him represents an exercise in intestinal fortitude and intellect for nominally GOOD people. Bad people just pull the trigger, no problem. But a GOOD person has very REEEAAAALLL problems immediately before, during and after. AND, IF you kill someone, and your a GOOD person, it will change your life forever.
So, in my opinion, these Hollywood Liberals and lifetime anti gunners would be better off just moving out of California like everybody else is doing. Owning, and possibly using, a gun is most likely way too much to handle for a Liberal in so many disparate ways.
Last person out of Beverly Hills turn out the lights.
So, there’s a “Serge” of interest in guns in Beverly Hills?
This was prescient (1994): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF724QBowDo
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