Last week, an assassination attempt on President Donald Trump almost happened again.
(It seems absurd that I have to write “again” in connection with the idea of an assassination attempt on the President, of any President.)
You may not have heard about this one, so it’s worth knowing the details. And, yes, there is a reason that this story is important to you and your family.
And to be clear, this isn’t a hyperbolic story. We’re talking about the real details of a situation in which a man was on the way to the White House with the intention of shooting Trump. Rudy Blalock writes,
Secret Service officers arrested a Venezuelan man near the White House on Thursday evening after he allegedly said voices told him to kill President Donald Trump.
Officers approached Ronny Yordrix Guanipa Chrinos after seeing him acting suspiciously in a car parked on Constitution Avenue, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Friday in a news release.
The car had been reported stolen, and officers found three guns, including a rifle, and dozens of rounds of ammunition.
Chrinos faces weapons charges, along with charges of theft, receiving stolen property, and unauthorized use of a vehicle.
He remained in U.S. Marshals Service custody, and immigration officials requested that he be held for possible transfer to their custody. The department said he entered the country illegally through Texas in March 2024.
So, just to be clear here: Chrinos is in the U.S. illegally, illegally obtained several firearms, and stole a vehicle. And it sounds like Chrinos is dealing with some serious mental health issues (hearing voices is a bad sign, I would think….).
Gun control should have prevented this guy from getting a gun just because of the mental health issues and his criminal background (entering the country illegally is, by definition, illegal, whatever your position on illegal immigration is).
Yet, Chrinos got his hands on multiple guns.
Scary.
And here’s why this story is important to you: If Chrinos could do all of this, what is stopping some other criminally minded person or person struggling with mental health from doing the same thing and killing innocent people, which could include your family?
The answer is that you are the only thing keeping someone with evil intent from hurting your family. So, train to proficiency, train to maintain proficiency, and carry daily. Because you never know if today is the day that you might have to save a life with that tool and training.