[liberallarry]

BURGLARY is not a small crime. It is a very dangerous crime which can often result in the death of the victim, or even the death of the offender

How often?

And if it doesn't why should a criminal be punished for a possibility?

[Devil_Anse]

Burglary is not a small crime.

Are you asking me to compile statistics? You wouldn't trust them if I DID bring them to your lazy, argumentative, discontented, angry little door. (Or... hey, I'll break in and leave them on your kitchen table, 'kay?)

You consider it not important if a person's home is breached, if their last refuge for safety is taken away from them? You don't think it's dangerous when someone is so bold as to walk up to a victim, break in their door, and casually treat the victim's stuff as his own?

Would you do me a favor? Pick some houses that look like they have some really good stuff in them. Break in and take what you want. Let's see how safe you are while doing it. And let's see how you react if an owner tries to capture you and get you put in jail. I think you'd be even more agitated and irrational than you are now, as you sit hoping for an escalating argument. Having an agitated and irrational stranger in one's home is not safe.

If someone shot a gun in your direction, and the bullet whizzed by your head, within inches of your head, would you think, no prob, no harm done, it didn't hit me? Or would you be wanting that person to be prosecuted so that he would not do that again? (I don't expect an honest answer.)