What is the appropriate response to a request to go pro se in a criminal case?

The trial court's response to appellant's application was: You can't proceed on your own. You don't know the law. Surely no one would argueand the majority here does not suggestthat this would be an appropriate response to a defendant's request to go pro se in a criminal case. Criminal defendants, no matter how little law they know, are entitled to blunder through on their own if they want to, so long as they are competent to stand trial ( Godinez v. Moran, 509 U.S. 389, 113 S.Ct. 2680, 125 L.Ed.2d 321 [1993] ).