Will this devolve in to widespread looting/home invasions?

The amount of people standing in line for guns certainly seems to indicate many people think it will.

In some areas, possibly.

Depends on how strong the social contract is, and what the ratio of assholes:good people is.

I’d think home invasions would go down since a lot more people than usual are at home in the middle of the day.
I think, if anything, you’re going to see an uptick in businesses getting robbed.

My county sheriff hosts a site showing crime logs. Looks like the past week had exactly one case, shoplifting (under $950). One case in the county. A small county, sure, with agriculture, an Indian casino, a state prison, and lots of retirees staying home. Anyway, your local jurisdiction might publish its crime stats. We can track any shifts in crime during The Situation.

To you and the OP, by “home invasion” did you actually mean simple burglary?

In a home invasion the occupants are there and threatened or harmed in the course of the crime, by definition.

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One thing I’ve noticed - my phone is ringing off the hook with spam calls. They’re trying to loot the stuck-at-home population in different ways.

Anyone trying to break into occupied houses around here is a damn fool given how many people in those house have guns of their own.

There will be a brief period of noise after which I anticipate there will be a significantly smaller pool of people who think home invasion a good idea.

Are you usually at home during the day? We are, and the number hasn’t changed very much for us.

The streets are so empty that it would be a lot harder for bad guys to merge in with traffic, and easier for cops to eye strange cars. Plus, the cops have a reason to pull anyone over now.

Yep, I work from home. I have a service from my VOIP provider that if the number looks shady it rings once then stops. It was ringing like crazy all week and on the weekend. Today it has actually been quiet. Could be that whoever was terrorizing last week got shut down in some capacity.

If this goes on for months, then yes I think it could. Especially as people get desperate for food and money as the unemployment rate skyrockets.

It’s chilly here today, but in a couple of weeks people are going to be sitting out on front and back porches for long stretches of time. Knowing everyone and their mama will be able to see you being up to no good will be a deterrent for the common criminal, I gotta think.

This is a YMMV category. Although I typically receive 4 spam/scam calls per weekday, I have received none since last Friday so far (and Sunday averages 1 call). Does anyone answer the phone anymore?

They will break in on some bored guy cleaning his duck gun.

We don’t receive spam phone calls. I feel so undervalued and unappreciated. :mad:

Or on some innocent old gal with a herd of attack-trained kittehs. Or… an abandoned house nearby is sometimes inhabited by a black bear. I eagerly await a break-in there.

We should see a surge in sales of QUARANTINE signs to be placed as intruder deterrents. That beats a SOLICITORS WILL BE FED TO ZOMBIES sign. But skip doorbell cams - they deter few. Well, a nearby guy captured images of five mountain lions at his porch. Maybe this is the sign to post:

  • PUMA FEEDING STATION *
    RUN! THEY LIKE TO CHASE

I would welcome an opportunity to displace my anger at the government cracks knuckles

Did you forget to take your pills?

Impossible. My phone alarm won’t let me. I’m fortunately down to two mouthsfull per day. They must work - I’ve had no indecent exposure arrests lately. Stay tuned.

Some goofball made a meme that said something like “Want to steal things? Break into a house with a Bernie Sanders bumper sticker on the car, because they won’t have a gun.”

One of my FBFs posted that, as satire, and got a lot of replies along the lines of “Wanna bet? Let’s just say I don’t hunt deer and rabbits with a bow and arrow.”

Who knows?

Some of us have been prepared.