What have done towards your prep?

[Mortblanc]

How many of US have been "raided like that" is not relevant. What is relevant is the fact that it is happening daily and often going unreported for various reasons.

Most of these intruder robberies are reported as "burglaries with the occupant present", which is a sanitized way of saying "looters entered home, beat occupant, stole what they wanted."

These "home invasions" happen frequently over here, especially in the urban areas but also in rural situations. Sometimes the door is smashed open but often it is due to people leaving their entry doors unlocked so the kids can roam in and out, or just due to lack of general security mindset.

It is almost always marginal persons living in tightly packed urban areas and many times they do not even report the incidents due to the victims being undocumented immigrants, relatives of the intruder, or fearful of gang retaliations.

It appears these kinds of crimes are happening more frequently, or self defense is taking place more frequently ad being reported more often. The rate of occurrence is probably the same, but the media is focusing on them for some reason. The stabbing of the intruder last week, this crossbow incident this week. They are probably working up to a test of the self defense laws nationwide.

Any time I see increased media coverage of some activity I expect to see legislation coming down the track soon. They love to create new squeaky wheels to grease uselessly.

The most dangerous time of any persons' life is that space where folk are acting as if SHTF and personal danger is heightened, but TPTB are still in place protecting the rights of the criminals rather than protecting the lives of the innocent.