There are a lot of urban areas (especially on the West Coast) now where the government has decided it’s racist to enforce the laws, but they still at least pretend they’ll do their job… they just never do. In the Bay Area though, the government actually came out and said the citizens are on their own, it would not be equitable for the government to stop crime. So OF COURSE you have little old ladies packing heat. And well they should if in their old age they can’t count on anyone else to protect them or stand up for them.

Edit: Theoretically I guess the Bay is back to pretending it will enforce the law in the year it’s been since Chesa Boudin was shown the door, but I haven’t seen anything to suggest that anything has changed.