Democracy Now!

OK. Not Californian, but if I were, and saw someone getting kidnapped by masked men on the street, I am opening fire. Cops can't legally be masked? Fine. Those masked men are criminals engaged in kidnapping. "How was I to know judge?"

Yes, I am well aware that the outcome would likely be my personal extinction, or life in a concrete and steel box. Not allowing the latter option. And all the authorities have demonstrated is, "Fight to the death or we'll kill you." Aight. I chose to die with my boots on.

I'm no warrior, a coward in many ways. But I'm well armed and practiced, shoot a few days a week with a variety of firearms. Have, let me count, uh, 4 guns within reach ATM. All guns I've worked with extensively, all with ammo attached or chambered. All reliable and most set for fighting in the dark, and I practice in the dark. (I have loads of guns just for fun, most are.)

I have a brown, legal, immigrant wife and I'll not see her screaming and crying as masked fascists drag her away. I'd be shaking in my fucking boots, but at some point, someone has to say, "This will not stand." Someone has to say, "I'll die first."