Why is burglary treated as a minor crime?

[R1Geezer]

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Here is a recent question where most expressed a similar level of revulsion to me, yet Burglary still needs mutiple offences before jail is even considered. Why is it such an underated crime, in my view it's equivalent to rape yet it usually goes unpunished. I have in the past suggested a 10 year jail term for this, with predictable whinning from the criminals friends and I stand by that.

[flip_flop]

Geezer is referring to me when he states a member of AB has had burglars crap in their bed.

They crapped in mine and Mrs Flop's bed (but had the decency to re-make the bed so we didn't actually discover it until we went to bed that night) and they crapped on my daughter's bedroom floor.

The sense of violation was overwhelming.

[DTCwordfan]

well, even though it's repulsive and terms should be stricter, it isn't as bad as (personal) robbery - that should, in most cases, get the stricter term as the victim is directly threatened.

[steg]

in most states in usa you can shoot dead, burglars, if they are in your house and you or your family's life are at threat............. That is justice

[R1Geezer]

well flip flop let's ask jake what category that is then?

Bowlocks jake, the whole lot is a disgusting violation, I'd not think twice about caving their heads in with my cricket bat if I could.

[DTCwordfan]

true steg - you can shoot your neighbor's house robber to in Texas as proven by a case three years ago in South Houston.......even though the police had warned him not to interfere.

You can shoot a road rage driver if he gets out of his car - a lawyer did this in Houston too.....never went to court. "he could have menaced me, so I plugged him with the gun in my passenger drawer.

In Texas, guns can not be worn by the public but they can be hidden.

[jake-the-peg]

This category is clearly Aggravated burglary Geezer - starting point 18 months - very much not a minor crime.

[jake-the-peg]

Incidently aggravated burglary can only be tried in crown court and has a maximum sentence of life

[R1Geezer]

18 months, so out in 9 then. First offence jail? I very much doubt it!

[Zeuhl]

<<in most states in usa you can shoot dead, burglars, if they are in your house and you or your family's life are at threat............. That is justice >>

And how many accidental shootings and injuries to innocent people occur each year in the good old us of a because some dimwit thinks he is exercising this right?
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[eyethenkyew]

Haw, haw, haw, the usual daft comments, going totally off the subject and making ridiculous comparisons with, i.e. rape. There is none, we're not discussing rape, we're discussing burglary. It is not a victimless crime, I should know, I've been there with victims trying to console them after some scumbags have been all through their house, they've wrecked the place, they've nicked some irreplaceable items, they've shat on the floor and p*s*ed on the setee.

Try it sometime, folks, then convince me that burglary's a victimless crime. Also, the victim could also face the horrendous prospect of having to give evidence against the scumbags who will be there being defended at public expense and who, on the rare occasion they get convicted, will have further thousands of pounds of public money spent on them to (snigger) "rehabilitate" them. The victim, in the meantime, is set adrift to get on with it.

And as for holding your fire in case you make a mistake, I can just imagine that, as you're confronted by a masked intruder at the dead of night in your home:
"Er, pardon me, sorry to interrupt your rifling through and defiling of my little home, nicking my prized possessions, but would you mind just proving that you are indeed a pukka gen scumbag before I splat your guts all over the floor with my legally held 12 bore shotgun which is presently pointing at your skull? Perhaps your membership card of "Billy Burglar Inc" or, failing that, your "I am a sad druggie barsteward" card...." etc etc

Hee, hee, hee, you could not make it up, could you?

[LoftyLottie]

It was Geezer that brought up Rape in his question, so nobody went off the subject there. eyethenkewe