| ▲ | jrflowers a day ago |
| You want thieves to be armed? |
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| ▲ | earth-tattoo a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| It's much more safe for a law abiding citizen to assume that all thieves are armed, because they most likely are. |
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| ▲ | Scrapemist a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Burglars in particular tend to target empty houses precisely to avoid confrontation. To bring a weapon only make sense if there is a chance of getting shot at. | | |
| ▲ | crote 21 hours ago | parent [-] | | Isn't "crime, done with the involvement of a firearm" also often more harshly punished than the plain crime itself? If a burglar is targeting empty houses, this would give them a strong incentive to not bring a firearm, just in case they get caught. As the saying goes, only break one law at a time! | | |
| ▲ | lwkl 18 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes burglary with weapons is called robbery and is treated as a more serious crime with a higher punishments in a lot of jurisdiction | | |
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| ▲ | cosmicgadget 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > because they most likely are. This has to be made up. | |
| ▲ | jrflowers a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | That’s awful, it’s terrible that the thieves fear for their lives so much that they arm themselves |
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| ▲ | exabrial 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Escalating petty theft into attempted murder charges, with the possibility of capital punishment? Um... |
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| ▲ | AlexandrB a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| They frequently already are. Even here in Canada[1] where any kind of "carry" is generally not allowed. Shockingly, thieves often don't care about gun laws though. [1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-police-cash-r... |
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| ▲ | cosmicgadget 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | Your link refers to a single robbery which explicitly requires that you threaten another individual. "Thieves" encompasses far, far more than robbery, crimes where you needn't threaten someone else and carrying an illegal firearm becomes a liability. |
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| ▲ | subscribed 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| They already are, including in the countries that penalise carrying anything for the self defense. |
