Time to move!

On August 1st I went back to work for the first time in 12 weeks. I am on my way home and so excited to see my baby and the rest of the family, and I REALLY need to nurse Gunner. I get off the freeway and the Chase Bank right by my house appears to have been robbed, yellow tape and cops everywhere. Bummer for the bank, or so I thought. Turns out they were looking for this guy in my condo complex and I am not allowed to go home, park on the street and walk in, sit idling on the side of the road, or turn down ANY street near my house. I drive around for 30 minutes waiting to go in. Finally I get to go home and that guy is still at large. All they said on the news was they were looking for a man in camouflage.
Oh AND the one street that I did turn down to turn around on, this pick-up appeared out of nowhere and was acting very weird following me even though I was pulled over drving really slowly trying to flip a u-turn. They then pulled next to me and looked at me all weird, so I yelled at them in a not so nice way and they drove off. You guessed it.... the passenger was dressed in camouflage! OH MY GOSH!!!! I could be dead.
So fine. There have been a string of bank robberies in the city, times are hard and Phoenix is big. And my baby was not starving to death, so all was well...although I was greeted at the door with a HUGE knife since that is all we have to protect ourselves with.
Fast forward to Friday 8/8. I am almost home, approaching the street that I live on and again there's cops and tape and flares, yes flares. I cannot even turn down the street, not even the back way. So finally I get pointed in the right direction and I can go into my parking lot the back way. I am talking to Mom this whole time. In looking down the closed street there are cop cars and what I told her was an accident. I was wrong.
Seems times are REALLY hard and some guy decides to break into this lady's house two blocks from us while she is home. Ties her up (and I am not sure what else), ransacks her home, and steals a bunch of stuff. This guy is still at large too. I wonder if it is the same guy?
So I have decided that it is time to move... or buy a gun whichever. That will only take 30 minutes and a couple hundred bucks, as opposed to moving which can take weeks and thousands.