Since the beginning of the coronavirus hysteria, the liberal media has been shaming Americans buying guns for protection. They haven’t however been reporting on the wave of looting and burglary plaguing the nation as a literal plague rages on. The massage here is that law-aboding Americans exercising their Constitutional rights are bad, but scumbag criminals taking advantage of a national emergency are good. That’s crappy as hell, but it’s worse because the fake news industry and democrats are rooting for the criminals while demanding good people disarm.

Let’s take a little tour of the country and see what scumbags are doing while the rest of us are locked down and respecting the stay-at-home and social distancing rules.

NYC:

The New York City Police Department reported that they have seen a 75 percent increase in the number of burglaries to commercial establishments since March 12, when Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a state of emergency. Approximately 254 burglaries of businesses were found to have taken place during that period, compared to 145 for the same time last year, officials explained to the Wall Street Journal. Many restaurants and bars in the city closed or began limiting operations after the city announced for establishments to stop on-site services. ‘We knew with the closing of many stores that we could see an increase and, unfortunately, we are,’ said NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LiPetri.

San Jose:

Several restaurants and small businesses in the South Bay say they have recently been targeted by thieves trying to take advantage of the COVID-19 shelter-in-place order. “They walked out with kind of the heart of the restaurant as far as the financial aspect of it. It’s your monetary income,” said Dan Holder, owner of Jack Holder’s Restaurant and Bar in San Jose’s Cambrian neighborhood. Holder said his employees arrived Sunday morning and discovered that someone had smashed out a window on the side of the business and stolen several tablets and other items. “The immediate reaction was, ‘You’ve got to be kidding.’ You come into work on Sunday morning knowing that some lowlife has broken into your place of business and stolen valued possessions from you,” said Holder. He said the break-in was especially painful because just two days prior he’d organized a meal giveaway for police officers, firefighters and other first responders in San Jose.

North Carolina:

York County deputies have charged two North Carolina men with looting during the South Carolina coronavirus state of emergency, officials said. The arrests for breaking the looting law under South Carolina’s state of emergency are believed to be the first in York County by local law enforcement officers during the Covid-19 pandemic, said Trent Faris, spokesman for the York County Sheriff’s Office. Both suspects are from Mecklenburg County, records show.

California:

The Modesto Police Department arrested two more looting suspects in the past week and are looking for a third. A man and a woman on Saturday filled a shopping cart with $400 worth of groceries at the Save Mart on Oakdale Road and left the store without paying, said Modesto Police Department spokeswoman Sharon Bear. As they were loading the groceries into their vehicle a Save Mart employee confronted them and a ‘scuffle’ ensued between the employee and the male suspect, Bear said. Investigators identified the suspects as Patricia Flores, 32, of Salida, and Nicolas Cardenas, 24, of Modesto. In a separate incident on Tuesday, officers arrested Johnathon Sutherland, 29, of Waterford, on suspicion of stealing Advil and aspirin from the Walmart on Coffee Road. Officers arrived on scene and found Sutherland in the parking lot. He was booked on charges including looting and shoplifting.

Wyoming:

Kasarda’s Greenhouse in Wyoming spent the day collecting donations and delivering flowers to healthcare workers only to find people looting the greenhouses while they were gone. In a post on Facebook, they say people were filling their cars with perennials, pots and plants.

They were stealing flowers? That’s f*cking crazy.

At least there was this one success story and not coincidentally enough, a gun saved the day. The Chicago Tribune reports:

A doorbell video of a shocking daylight home invasion in Arlington Heights released by police Thursday shows a chaotic scene before the attempted robbery ended with a homeowner fatally shooting one of the intruders. The Ring doorbell video begins with two men, identified by police as Bradley J. Finnan, 38, of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Larry D. Brodacz, 58, of Buffalo Grove, approaching the front door of the manicured two-story home in the 2400 block of Evergreen Avenue, with the duo wearing baseball caps, surgical-style masks and gloves. The pair had plotted a robbery at the house to sync with the state’s stay-at-home order issued by Gov. J.B. Pritzker to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, authorities said. A man authorities say was determined to be Brodacz can be seen in the video trying the doorknob, knocking, then seeing the Ring camera and warning the other man, determined to be Finnan, not to look at the camera. The man police identified as Brodacz then rings the doorbell. The homeowner and Brodacz fought, and at some point, Brodacz was disarmed, according to police. Authorities said Brodacz was shot and killed by the male homeowner with his wife’s gun.

So yeah, people should be arming themselves for protection. Criminals aren’t sitting out the coronavirus and are in fact looking at the pandemic as an opportunity to commit crime. When everything goes to shit the last thing you want to do is not be prepared.

Shame on democrats and the liberal media for trying to push gun control during the coronavirus pandemic. Double-shame on them for not alerting the public to the wave of crime that threatens us more than the virus that China unleashed upon the world.