You probably already know it’s not a good idea to bring a knife to a gunfight. Think how a California burglar felt, then, when he broke into a woman’s bedroom toting a rock and a wooden stake…and was confronted by a man with a gun.
As KUSI reports . . .
Police said the alleged intruder, armed with a rock and three-foot wooden stake, attempted to enter the residence through an open bedroom slider door connected to their backyard. A female occupant was inside the bedroom at the time.
A male occupant then tried to confront the man, who proceeded to throw a rock at his face, according to Oceanside police. The homeowner then grabbed a gun and shot at the intruder three times, hitting him at least once in the chest.
The un-named 22-year-old home invader subsequently assumed room temperature. He seems to have been working the neighborhood when his luck ran out.
“The suspect may have tried to enter at least one other home, by throwing a rock through a sliding glass window of that residence, causing the glass to shatter. It was not determined if the suspect did enter the residence and those residents were not home at the time,” Heather Mitchell with the Oceanside Police Department said in a news release Tuesday.
He won’t be bothering the neighbors any more.
Yes, gun ownership really is legal in California. With almost 40 million residents, the not-so-golden state has it’s share of individuals who own firearms. Back in 2018, the anti-gun Firearm Violence Research Center that’s run by Garen Wintemute at UC Davis claimed California had only 4.2 million gun owners (about 14% of adults). In 2022, CBS News put the number at twice that (28.3%). We’d guess the real figure is higher.
Whatever the actual number, stories like this one out of Oceanside should be giving more criminals pause about trying to victimize law-abiding citizens. And given the state of play there, more Californians who want to protect themselves and their families should think about becoming gun owners.
Rock and a 3′ stake……was he looking for vampires!
I had the same thought.
I wonder if the defender used a handgun–and if it was on the California approved handgun roster?
Doesn’t need to be on the roster for ownership or transfer. Only for brand new sales from an FFL.
Shoot, it doesn’t even need to be registered here for legal ownership unless purchased or transferred after 1991 (or 1993 for intrafamilial).
“Doesn’t need to be on the roster for ownership or transfer. Only for brand new sales from an FFL.”
If you find an off-roster handgun you want on gunbroker.com, you can pay for it, have it shipped to your local FFL and take possession of it after jumping through the hoops?