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This may be an effect, but while some criminals want to avoid a confrontation with a gun-wielding resident... others want to steal guns. By helping criminals self-sort to the right targets for the risks they prefer, the net effect on crime/safety could be negative, by shifting break-ins to where they are most likely to succeed.

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Is gun theft ever really that much of a specific goal? Seems guns are easy enough to get on the street that breaking into a house just to steal guns has a much higher risk than is normally necessary.

EDIT: Well that didn't take long to acquire a silent Reddit-style "independent-thought downvote."

You'd be suprised: http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/11/thieves_break...

That's one instance with a very large (no?) safe. I was asking about the prevalence of that kind of crime, not whether it had ever happened before in the history of weapons, or theft itself.

Yes, especially if you simply observe a house known to have guns and take them when the owners are not home.

I realize how the concept of theft works.

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