In the Casey Anthony trial, prosecutor Jeff Ashton has finally accomplished what I thought would be impossible: he elicited testimony today from George Anthony that momentarily made me wonder if the defense theory about his involvement in the cover-up of little Caylee’s death and his reason for attempting suicide was wholly fabricated.

But only momentarily. When the trial recessed for lunch, I had a chance to think about what George Anthony said—it made no sense at all.

George Anthony testified that before he swallowed blood-pressure medicine and a six-pack of beer he bought a gun with which to threaten some of “Casey’s friends” whom he thought had information about Caylee’s whereabouts.

Huh?

Which of Casey’s friends was of a murderous frame of mind or a kidnapping frame of mind in January 2009? Which of her friends had something to hide or something that George thought they were hiding? It couldn’t possibly have been the friends who testified at the beginning of the prosecution’s case, because they were all extremely up-standing citizens, including a politician’s staffer.

Why would a former police officer (George Anthony) decide to take the law into his own hands by committing a felony, namely, assaulting people with a deadly weapon?

Let’s face it: what George Anthony said about the gun purchase is very, very strange—as strange as his claim that he visited a woman named “River Cruise” or “Cruz” at night because she had cancer and he was being charitable.