A friend of mine was killed by a burglar. The burglar picked up a set of tools, and when my friend went into the room to see what the noise was, the burglar stabbed him to death.
No offense against you, but it pisses me off when people make it out that all you need to do is leave burglars alone and they’ll just take your stuff and leave. They are criminals. You don’t know what they are going to do. They may run, or they may kill you.
The burglar didn’t go to my friend’s house looking for blood. He did not intend to kill my friend. He was just there to steal something so he could go buy some crack. If my friend had been armed at the time, then the burglar would be dead and everyone could bitch and moan about how he was just a poor burglar and he was only there to steal. But my friend wasn’t armed, so now he’s dead.
Or, if the burglar felt that she had forced him into having to kill her as a witness. Or, kept him from stealing whatever he wanted. Or, if he just decided to slap her around to make sure that she kept her mouth shut, both during and after the robbery, and she didn’t want to.
Nope. You can’t say what he would have done, as his frustration/anxiety/adrenaline levels may have skyrocketed. Without a weapon, her recourse would have been to submit or scream. What would that have done?
I don’t think that we have any numbers on burglars who get into a home immediately after being disappointed in the manner that he was, so, we really have no idea if it was a gross exaggeration or a precisely accurate observation.
Someone who breaks in at 5 am has a reasonable expectation that people are home, and thus fits the definition of home invasion more than than the broad burglary, which can include casing the place and waiting for the resident to leave for work (or “housebreaking” in some places). Couldn’t have been too bright if he raised an alarm within a stones throw right before!
If someone is breaking into my house, I don’t give a shit about what their intent was.
Quantity. Although nowadays .22 can barely be found at all.
