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I arrived in Los Angeles in January 1992 for my assignment at Los Angeles AFB, which is at the corner of El Segundo and Aviation boulevards, (actually in the city of El Segundo). It is next to and just west of the 405 Freeway. Just on the east side of the freeway is where some of the rioting happened, and it was still being talked about on base. I was bemused to find out that the base had run its recall roster when the riots broke out -- but instead of the usual procedure of calling everyone to duty, it was run to tell everyone to stay home until the riots were under control. LAAFB is the home of Space and Missile Systems Center. We spent $$ buying really cool and useful stuff, like the Global Positioning System, but it is not armed citadel.

While in LA I first took up seriously trying to learn and train with a handgun, and I started with the Model 19 that I inherited from my Dad. I looked around and found a police officer and shooting competitor who taught self-defense shooting classes out at the Lake Piru range. He was a cop in the San Fernando Valley, and had been deployed for the riots. He told us that the police in his sector were posted at the government buildings and told to guard them and not to leave their posts, even if they could see bad things happening down the street. The city governments did not give a flip for protecting private property.

This guy, a screenwriter in Hollywood, was at a movie premiere when the rioting came to the front doors of the theater. He says of that day, "It was a defining moment of my life." He is since then a bit of an oddball in the Hollywood scene: conservative, Republican, NRA Life Member, and Zionist Jew. He details his "defining moment here: Jew Without A Gun

All this supports what Schlichter is talking about.