Here’s a little something that can absolutely be laid at the door of the “let ’em all in” (a.k.a. the Biden border policy) phenomenon:
A sheriff in Michigan is sounding the alarm over a rise in gangs of illegal aliens getting into the United States for the sole purpose of burglarizing Americans.
Oakland County, Michigan Sheriff Michael Bouchard, as well as other law enforcement agencies across the U.S., is warning that illegal aliens from the southern border are burglarizing members of their communities at an increasing rate.
“These are transnational gangs that are involved in this that come from South America, looking to do burglaries and violate our communities, not just in Oakland County but across America,” Bouchard said.
The Brits have been experiencing this for well over a decade, as well-organized criminal gangs (especially from Eastern Europe) have not only been expanding drug- and prostitute-related activities, but creating gangs of smash-and-grab thieves and burglary rings. Of course, this was facilitated by the EU policy of open borders and the reluctance of Brit politicians to do anything meaningful about it — which has been mirrored most recently in the U.S.A. by feckless politicians like Biden and his lickspittle accomplices in Homeland Security, INS and even our alleged “law enforcement” officials like prosecutors and the Fibbies.
Of course, the thieving activities of organized gangs has also been facilitated by crime groups such as Black Lives Matter — a local criminal organization given free rein by both state- and local governments — so it’s not just furriners.
This has been especially true in urban areas where a gang of say twenty thugs can crash a retail establishment and loot the place utterly without too much fear of arrest, let alone incarceration. So far, the response has just been that the affected retailer groups have shut their inner-city stores, which is fine for chains like Target or Wal-Mart, but not so fine for single-store owners who have three options: change the format from self-service to counter-service operation; close the store and lose their livelihood, or (in some memorable cases) employ armed guards to ensure that such raids will be met with force.
Of course, where the last of those three courses has been adopted, theft has dropped precipitously or disappeared altogether. Which brings me back to burglary.
Most lower-middle or working-class houses offer poor pickings to any organized crime gangs simply because there’s not much to steal and the game isn’t worth the candle. Likewise, ultra-wealthy households are often protected by good alarm systems or even armed guards because those homeowners can afford such measures.
What’s left is the vulnerable middle- and upper-middle classes who may have some stuff that justifies an armed invasion, and not the means to protect it adequately.
Expect therefore that this kind of larcenous activity is going to grow in more affluent suburbs (like, maybe, Plano TX).
And you all know what I’m going to say about that:
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If enough of these assholes are killed trying to break into suburban homes, it may make them a little less keen to try it.
Just a thought.
However, if you live in an area where wasting a couple choirboys is going to get you arrested rather than congratulated by the local cops, you may need to reconsider your living arrangements.
OK, I see the shotgun and that’s good. There’s some variant of the plastic mattel toy, acceptable. And then WTF is that? Buck Roger’s ray gun? Is that even a firearm? Jeez, Kim. Put up a pitcher of the new Henry Homesteader if you want a pistol caliber carbine. Or the old M1 Carbine. Or basically anything else.
It’s not actually a ray gun, it’s for people with over sized thumbs !!
The only place I can see to insert a magazine is the hand grip, so it must be a pistol-cartridge carbine, with the barrel extended to 16″ to avoid being an NFA weapon. That’s a very thin barrel – can it be 9mm, or is it even smaller caliber?
But even .22LR is adequate if the sight of that scary-looking gun makes them run. Or if you get perfect shot placement…
When I lived in Plano, the only houses on my street that were burgled were the doofuses that left their garages open when they weren’t home. In my first house, I don’t think we were there more than a few months when someone stole my mountain bike out of the garage my wife forgot to close.
Second house was where at least two neighbors were looted. I asked my back alley neighbor why why passed my house by, since I’d left the door open once or twice. He said “It’s the motorcycle. They see that and think if they try an ass beating was sure to follow”.
I was in london on business and one of the salesguys I was working with told me that he was working at home, looked out his office door and some dude was in his house stealing his stuff. I asked what he did, and he said he chased him down the street. I commented that this would never happen in Plano.
When he asked why, I told him that they couldn’t be sure that the lady of the house wasn’t packing heat. So they would only try if the garage was open and there were no cars in it or out front.
Where I live now, in Richardson, most everyone has a gate across the driveway, so there’s no telling who’s home and who isn’t. That said, you can tell the locusts that came here from the left coast – leave the garage open all the time.
Congrats on the S-A XDm…..the XD’s are damn fine guns.
As to the “ray gun”…..I remember the outline, just can’t remember the maker.
Beretta.
Nothing says excess like Italian Post-Modern Art!