I reckon you might know Code Toad?
I remember way back in the Rodney King years the Asians guarded their stores armed, no problemo, but figured that nowadays thieves and scum would gain all the protections, with the proprietors would be hung out to dry.
We really do get more of the mentally deranged, psychopathic killers here in Cali. If there's a really shockingly horrible crime, it very often happened here. We need all the personal protection we can get, and I pitty the fool who doesn't use it.