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Let's Get Real About The Danger Of Your Home Or Apartment Being Looted During The Coronavirus Crisis
2020 Mar 20, 10:14am 990 views 15 comments
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RWSGFY
2020 Mar 20, 10:23am
RWSGFY
2020 Mar 20, 10:23am
Who said anything about apartments being looted? Businesses are being looted when the society breaks down. Your assume the people who are buying guns now are apartment dwellers working for somebody else? Based on what exactly? What if they are small business owners who didn't have guns before due to some mental aberration like you and your father have but now coming to realization that when SHTF they will have nobody to count on for several days at least. Remember LA riots?
Also, since we are on the subject of LA riots, remember that guy who was stopped at the intersection and beaten to half-death by fucking rioting animals and left with severe brain damage? A gun, any gun, would make a YUUUUUGE difference in his situation.
Also, since we are on the subject of LA riots, remember that guy who was stopped at the intersection and beaten to half-death by fucking rioting animals and left with severe brain damage? A gun, any gun, would make a YUUUUUGE difference in his situation.
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HeadSet
2020 Mar 20, 10:31am
HeadSet
2020 Mar 20, 10:31am
Also recall what happened in NY during the Carter era electrical blackout. And that was just a day or so, with well over a thousand stores looted or vandalized, thousands arrested, and over $1 Billion damages in today's money.
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EBGuy
2020 Mar 20, 12:25pm
Why Steven Pinker gave up on anarchism
August 23, 2010
From The Blank Slate, p. 331:
When law enforcement vanishes, all manner of violence breaks out: looting, settling old scores, ethnic cleansing, and petty warfare among gangs, warlords and mafias. This was obvious in the remnants of Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, and parts of Africa in the 1990s, but can also happen in countries with a long tradition of civility. As a young teenager in proudly peaceable Canada during the romantic 1960s, I was a true believer in Bakunin’s anarchism. I laughed off my parents’ argument that if the government ever laid down its arms all hell would break loose. Our competing predictions were put to the test at 8:00 A.M. on October 17, 1969, when the Montreal police went on strike. By 11:20 A.M. the first bank was robbed. By noon most downtown stores had closed because of looting. Within a few more hours, taxi drivers burned down the garage of a limousine service that had competed with them for airport customers, a rooftop sniper killed a provincial police officer, rioters broke into several hotels and restaurants, and a doctor slew a burglar in his suburban home. By the end of the day, six banks had been robbed, a hundred shops had been looted, twelve fires had been set, forty carloads of storefront glass had been broken, and three million dollars in property damage had been inflicted, before city authorities had to call in the army and, of course, the Mounties to restore order. This decisive empirical test left my politics in tatters (and offered a foretaste of life as a scientist).
August 23, 2010
From The Blank Slate, p. 331:
When law enforcement vanishes, all manner of violence breaks out: looting, settling old scores, ethnic cleansing, and petty warfare among gangs, warlords and mafias. This was obvious in the remnants of Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, and parts of Africa in the 1990s, but can also happen in countries with a long tradition of civility. As a young teenager in proudly peaceable Canada during the romantic 1960s, I was a true believer in Bakunin’s anarchism. I laughed off my parents’ argument that if the government ever laid down its arms all hell would break loose. Our competing predictions were put to the test at 8:00 A.M. on October 17, 1969, when the Montreal police went on strike. By 11:20 A.M. the first bank was robbed. By noon most downtown stores had closed because of looting. Within a few more hours, taxi drivers burned down the garage of a limousine service that had competed with them for airport customers, a rooftop sniper killed a provincial police officer, rioters broke into several hotels and restaurants, and a doctor slew a burglar in his suburban home. By the end of the day, six banks had been robbed, a hundred shops had been looted, twelve fires had been set, forty carloads of storefront glass had been broken, and three million dollars in property damage had been inflicted, before city authorities had to call in the army and, of course, the Mounties to restore order. This decisive empirical test left my politics in tatters (and offered a foretaste of life as a scientist).
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MisdemeanorRebel
2020 Mar 20, 12:45pm
MisdemeanorRebel
2020 Mar 20, 12:45pm
EBGuy says
Totally correct. Another huge factor is the size of the youth demographic relative to others. We don't have that issue today.
Especially since so many soyboys can't open a pickle jar.
Why Steven Pinker gave up on anarchism
August 23, 2010
Totally correct. Another huge factor is the size of the youth demographic relative to others. We don't have that issue today.
Especially since so many soyboys can't open a pickle jar.
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RC2006
2020 Mar 20, 12:53pm
RC2006
2020 Mar 20, 12:53pm
Wife just txt me waning, sheriff friend gave heads up a rash of home invasions in my area. Its not public yet because they dont want to make public even more worried(trigger happy).
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FuckTheMainstreamMedia
2020 Mar 20, 1:09pm
FuckTheMainstreamMedia
2020 Mar 20, 1:09pm
Tons of cops live in Santa Clarita. More than just about anywhere else except Simi Valley. Why home invasion robberies there of all places?
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RC2006
2020 Mar 20, 2:28pm
RC2006
2020 Mar 20, 2:28pm
CovfefeButDeadly says
I know, it seams dumb I have 3 cops at least on my street. That's why I suspect it's the usual suspects not locals.
Tons of cops live in Santa Clarita. More than just about anywhere else except Simi Valley. Why home invasion robberies there of all places?
I know, it seams dumb I have 3 cops at least on my street. That's why I suspect it's the usual suspects not locals.
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Tenpoundbass
2020 Mar 20, 3:11pm
Tenpoundbass
2020 Mar 20, 3:11pm
Yeah? Well Argentina didn't have news of home invaders getting shot by Trump voting Gun Nuts everyday.
I think Home invasions in America is on it's way out of fashion. The Democrats has done more to put protection in every venerable home in America. You'd be a fool to try to force enter an American Patriots house. And there's just so Goddamn many of us, those Professor's kids never know if they are breaking into one.
I think Home invasions in America is on it's way out of fashion. The Democrats has done more to put protection in every venerable home in America. You'd be a fool to try to force enter an American Patriots house. And there's just so Goddamn many of us, those Professor's kids never know if they are breaking into one.
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Rin
2020 Mar 24, 7:07pm
Rin
2020 Mar 24, 7:07pm
HeadSet says
That was the "Summer of Sam", as in the Son of Sam.
NY during the Carter era electrical blackout. And that was just a day or so, with well over a thousand stores looted or vandalized, thousands arrested, and over $1 Billion damages in today's money.
That was the "Summer of Sam", as in the Son of Sam.
I'm the man who wrote the article questioning City Arms being opened and the need for a gun to protect your house.
Let us get something straight. I'm not a leftist. If you come to my home, I will show you the Purple Heart that I won in Vietnam in 1971 when I was hit by shrapnel from a North Vietnamese artillery piece. I support the second amendment and the right of responsible gun owners to own a gun.
I have some unique experience that most people around here do not have. I lived 7 years in military dictatorships in Peru and Brasil in the 1970's, My wife is from Argentina. She spent 7 years in the bloody Argentine military dictatorship. We both know about social unrest and cities falling into anarchy with looting, etc.
What I see right now with coronavirus scares me. Let us look at Italy. The California of Italy, North Italy, has been hit by coronavirus in a big way. You have this affluent area with great industries, well-educated people and great medical care literally falling apart., Two disturbing points about this situation. The first is that if you get infected what happens to you is totally arbitrary. You might be in bed a few days in discomfort as you would be with the flu. You might find yourself in a hospital ICU on a ventilator. You might fall into unconsciousness and die. In Northern Italy the fatality rate for for those infected is 8%.
Many people are predicting that California could find themselves in this situation in 8-10 days. They may have a point.
Argentina suffered a total collapse of society in late 2001. Unemployment shot up to 25% (This was the unemployment rate in the US during the Great Depression.). There were two or three presidents in a couple of weeks. My wife and I had left. Her family lived through the anarchy and violence. Looting took two forms. You had genuinely hungry and desperate people who would attack food stores, gas stations, and pharmacies trying to get the necessities of life. You had criminal gangs who organized looters to attack department stores, jewelry stores, appliance shops and the warehouses that held these luxury goods. I heard of no cases where homes or condos were attacked by looters. Here is a short history for you to read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2001_riots_in_Argentina
I came from the Gulf Coast region of Texas. We were hit by many fierce hurricanes. Looting only took place after homes were abandoned.
In my opinion what we all need is to have a decent supply of food, water, medicines and other necessities of life in our homes. We do not need to be getting prepared for an armed onslaught when all order breaks down.
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