JayG brings us a report of a professional burglar after being caught. Jay goes over some of the details that are very important to understand on things to do to make your own home less attractive to burglars, but this nugget from the goblin himself is a point I want to highlight
Got that? He would avoid places he knew there was a risk of being shot. This is one of those glaring examples that the anti’s refuse to acknowledge of guns stopping crimes before they happen. I’ve seen this sentiment expressed many times in numerous reports from prisoners and convicts – they avoided places where guns were more common.
Now, those houses that weren’t robbed / women who weren’t raped / elderly people who weren’t mugged are numbers that never will make it into a register. It’s difficult to get numbers on crimes that didn’t happen, but it’s easy to ask those who got caught why they chose particular targets and many of them will tell you getting shot is a pretty damned good deterrent.
Those who want to make gun ownership harder are responsible for the consequences of their policies which put people at greater risk from criminals. It’s not ‘unintended consequences’ either, the anti-gun bigots are well aware that what they advocate for actually increases crime, they just prefer a woman to be raped and strangled to death over her successfully defending herself with a firearm.