#FlashbackFriday to When California Police Chief Claims a Gun “Is Not a Defensive Weapon”

By John Falkenberg

It’s no secret that California isn’t firearm-friendly territory. As armed citizens, we know the arguments made to enact gun control are deeply flawed, even with the best of intentions, and sometimes those arguments are completely insane.

In a video that could easily have broken the internet in 2013, former Emeryville Police Chief Ken James made a speech enumerating just what he thought about firearms, and I’ll warn you right now — it makes no flipping sense.

He doesn’t believe them to be defensive weapons because… reasons?

James made the speech, according to TheBlaze, during a press conference promoting strict gun laws in California.

It’s barely intelligible.

“One issue that always boggles my mind is that the idea that a gun is a defensive weapon,” he said. “That is a myth. A gun is not a defensive weapon.”

Why, pray tell, is a tool that has been used to save literally millions of lives across the globe over the span of hundreds of years not defensive?

He doesn’t seem to know.

“A gun is an offensive weapon used to intimidate and show power,” James stated. Which… no, it’s not.

Anyone using a firearm for what is essentially showing off is …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation