Wow.
Quite a leap forward from the original selections.
Yeah. Part of it is I'm a little under-insured, and feeling exposed.
Part of it is that recent home invasion 2 miles down the road where
five bad guys came in specifically targeting guns.
And got them.
And didn't get caught.
Then you get stuff like these
two guys, who thought they were gangstas, and went on a spree of armed robberies and home invasions until they finally got caught.
http://centralillinoisproud.com/rsh-fulltext?nxd_id=279542
Or these
three, who shot a man while robbing his home.
http://centralillinoisproud.com/fulltext/?nxd_id=224752
http://centralillinoisproud.com/fulltext/?nxd_id=280272
Or this man, who shot the
two bad guys robbing his home, killing one.
http://centralillinoisproud.com/fulltext/?nxd_id=229682
(I love how they call a bad guy a "shooting victim". They're not a damned victim when they invaded the sanctity of your home.)
Seeing a trend here????
Home invasions around here are being done in PACKS.
THOSE above are just the ones that have been SOLVED. For every one that makes the news with a mugshot, there's 100 more that never see the TV screen or newspaper.
Think about that. Then think about the odds of survival if you're in a 3-vs-1 or 5-vs-1 gunfight.
Then think about what happens NEXT. Guns get loaded in to a getaway car as you bleed, and now that group is even more heavily armed and emboldened.
Anyway... yeah, these are rough times, even out in the boondocks.