[jghn]

> Who do the cop haters call when thieves are breaking into their home with guns?

For one thing it doesn't happen that much in the first place. In 2024 the rate was 229.4 per 100k in the USA [1] And yet this always gets cited as some reason to keep the police around. These sorts of threats that people cite are exceedingly rare, and yet used to fuel a vision of the world that's one of requiring constantly vigilance and paranoia.

[1] https://www.consumeraffairs.com/homeowners/home-invasion-sta...

[rationalist]

2 per thousand!? That seems pretty high.

Anecdotal:

Also, my mom's house was burglarized, unknown if they had guns. After that, she got a home alarm.

My mom moved do a different part of the city, and her home was broken into at night while she was asleep. The home invaders continued as the home alarm was going off, and only stopped when a group of male neighbors started shouting at them. Presumably the criminals had weapons to conduct their home invasion.