Lunatics and violent criminals don’t make an appointment. They don’t call or text ahead. They just show up in your life. Take this scumbag. He bangs on your door like he owns it, screams threats, and starts kicking until the frame splinters.
That’s exactly what happened in Fairfield, California, on April 7, 2026. The man on the Ring camera called himself “Harry Dresden” (yeah, the wizard), ranted incoherently, demanded to see the daughter inside (to “make sure” she’s “safe”), and made it brutally clear he was coming in — one way or another. He was arrested later, but for those terrifying minutes, the only things protecting the family were a wooden door and whatever the homeowner had ready.
Are YOU ready at home right now?
Watch the clip making the rounds:
He seems like a nice, rational guy. Clearly the homeowner didn’t realize he was living in this guys neighborhood. How rude.pic.twitter.com/o0sC10CCcn
— Military Arms (@MAC_Arms) April 10, 2026
This is precisely why home carry isn’t “paranoid” — it’s responsible adulthood. Honestly, in my case it’s because I’m too lazy to take off a comfy holster when I arrive home.
Meanwhile, most gun owners store their firearm locked away “for safety.” That sounds responsible… until the crazy person is at your threshold and you have 5–10 seconds before the door gives way. By the time you sprint to the safe, fumble with the code, rack the slide, and get into position, the intruder is already in your house if you’re lucky and in your face if you’re not so blessed. Game over for you and your family.
Home carry — a quality holster on your belt or a reliable quick-access setup you actually wear around the house — means you’re armed the instant trouble starts. No running. No delay. Just the tool you need when seconds decide life or death.
And in Illinois, especially Chicago, those seconds are all you’ve got.
Wirepoints’ relentless FOIA digging into Chicago Police Department records lays bare the ugly truth: When you dial 911 for a life-threatening emergency — shots fired, person shot, assault in progress, armed robbery, domestic battery — there’s often nobody coming.
- In 2021: 406,829 high-priority 911 calls had zero officers available to send — 52% of all urgent calls.
- In 2022: It hit roughly 60%.
- In 2023: 437,000 high-priority calls (56%) sat in backlog with no units available.
- Through mid-2024: Still a deadly 50% — 127,000 out of 256,000 urgent calls with “no police available.”
That’s not a slow response. That’s dispatchers telling terrified callers to “shelter in place and pray” while entire police districts run with zero proactive patrol time because every available cop is already buried in backlogs that stretch 30 minutes to four hours. Chicago’s own Inspector General has admitted the department can’t even reliably log arrival times for huge numbers of calls.
You are the first — and often only — responder in your own home.
The gun-grabbers love to screech that a firearm in the house is “dangerous.” Tell that to the family that would have been slaughtered by the next “Harry Dresden” if the homeowner hadn’t been prepared. Criminals and crazies don’t care about gun-free zones, waiting periods, or your feelings. They only respect immediate, decisive force.
At Guns Save Life, we’ve said it for years: Train like your life depends on it… because one day it very well might.
Do this today:
- Choose a comfortable, reliable holster and start wearing it at home.
- Dry-fire practice your draw (unloaded, muzzle in a safe direction).
- Make sure every capable adult in the house knows the simple plan: “Gun goes bang until the threat stops.”
- Keep hammering those witness slips on the anti-gun bills in Springfield — because the same politicians trying to disarm law-abiding families are the ones whose policies left Chicago with “no units available” half the time.
Your home. Your family. Your rules. Your gun — close at hand.
Stay vigilant. Stay armed. Stay alive.
— Guns Save Life