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If that's the only crime under consideration, yes.

Mom Says Thieves Stole Christmas Presents

I say theves who break into houses are violent, they hurt people and they should be locked away for 40 years.

I say theves who break into houses are violent, they hurt people and they should be locked away for 40 years.

I'd classify as 'violent' those who break in while the home owners are present. I'd give anyone who was convicted a second for burglary a stiff sentence, and the third time, put them away until they're, oh, 65 or so.

most thieves go into unoccupied homes after the owners leave. This is a major irritant and can also effect the ole wallet, but it is not violent. Most of these criminals are in fact cowards because they do not want to face their victims, who may shoot them or perform ball bat counselling.

I say theves who break into houses are violent, they hurt people and they should be locked away for 40 years.

I agree. Even though they haven't done anything violent just by breaking in, they've shown that they are willing to be violent by risking a confrontation with the homeowner. Both times we were burglarized, I have no doubt that the burglars would have not given a thought to doing something horrible to me had I caught them in the act.

We were home during one burglary, but they only stole tools out of the garage so we didn't know until late that night when my husband checked the garage before going to bed. If I had walked into the garage to do laundry or anything else while they were there, do you think they would have put everything down and said they just wanted to be friends?

The second time, I had only gone back to work that week from summer vacation (teacher), and they burglarized the house only about an hour before I got home. I came home to a house with the back door wide open. They could easily have still been upstairs. I doubt in this case that things would have remained non-violent had I been home an hour sooner, which I easily could have.