Handgun-owners map draws outrage

[kenny blankenship]

69. Let's see if you can figure out which is much MUCH more likely to happen to you:

A) someone breaks into your house, knowing you're there - or B) someone breaks into your house, thinking you aren't there (regardless of whether you are or aren't), with the intention to steal your guns, silverware/jewelry, your TVs, your drugs and whatnot.

A map of guns and street addresses is a fucking treasure map to thieves. Tell a thief that there's a gun at such and such an address and he'll probably visualize a trove of other portable belongings with high street value at the same location, plus money stuffed in a mattress or a shoebox, and begin to salivate. There's a compelling mirror logic to it: he himself is the kind of person who accumulates highly portable valuable stuff and guards it with a gun. Thus to the thief the presence of a gun -which is itself an irresistible temptation- indicates the probable presence of a lot of similar stuff that is very portable and fenceable.