No offense RedStar but do you attend a Publik Skuuul in California??? Your Sspelllng are atrochess.
When we moved to the Ceres area some months back from a nice quiet area of the Napa Valley, where I had a long-standing CCW, I had some reservations about this area. After all the Gary Condit home and the Levy home and the Scott and Lacy Peterson home are all about 15 to 20 minutes from our house.
We moved into a relatively nice neighborhood and there are many church-going people. There are a number of different ethnic groups here and an Assyrian Cultural Center about a mile from our house. We have had very few problems here, partly because of my police background and training.
A short while after moving here I took the obligatory class and test for another CCW, fired my handguns on a local range and took my application in to the SO. To date, I have not been called in, nor have I recieved my new CCW. I guess it is time to write the sheriff and ask what gives. I hace had a CCW for about 23 years and have been a police firearms instructor in two places.
One evening after 11:30 PM, the doorbell rang. I was on the internet and my wife was dealing with some paperwork. I took my M1911 and put it in my back waist band and went to the small window and looked out. Then man that rang the door was on his cellphone and standing back about 12 feet. I opened the door and asked what he wanted. He said his brother had stopped in his driveway four houses away and when he went back to his car a couple of minutes later it was gone. He asked if the mountain bike that he saw on our sideyard was ours. I got my digital camera and went out to where his wife and one son were standing on the sidewalk. I took photos of the bike and the serial number and California registration number. I called the police and a female officer came out to the house. The bike had been removed by that time but I had 6 or 8 good shots of all the pertinent data.
As for threat of home invasion, it is very real and I have my own plan in dealing with it. Calling the police will have to be an afterthought since the perps that do these things do not generally give you time to call 911 before they enter your home.
As for cops raiding the wrong place, well,..... one would hope that they would have the right address and not be acting on a tip from some untrustworthy person. I do not appreciate these ninja cops with dark clothes and face masks. They look more lime JBTs than real cops.
The people of Turlock, about 10 minutes from my place neeed to be better prepared against home invasion robbers.
Meanwhile, without the CCW, I still take care of my own security and safety.
