No mercy for home invasion
Your home may no longer be safe
Rikki Saldivar
Issue date: 2/4/08 Section: Opinion
Home. It's the word that reminds most of us that there is a sanctuary to run to when all else fails. Where family is strong and unbinding. Where do you run when it's not safe anymore?
Home burglaries, the most preventable crimes, occur frequently.
In 2006, Houston statistics revealed there were 26,869 burglaries total. The level is worse than the national average.
I don't understand why someone would have to invade someone's home to take what doesn't belong to them. The concept alone will never be understood, but why someone's home. Someone worked for it and put all their hard effort into it. How can someone with absolutely no heart and right mind enter that house and feel they have the right to strip it of its possessions.
I see nothing wrong with going to the extreme to protect one's home and loved ones. If the criminal has courage enough to enter someone's home uninvited, they need to remember the consequences along with it. A perfect example is the story of Micheal Six who beat off a burglar with a baseball bat after the intruder broke into his home and entered his bedroom. He hid in his closet after seeing the man enter his house through a sliding glass door broken with a screwdriver. However, Six had mercy and after Garza, the intruder, fell to the floor he yelled "Sorry, man!" and ran to police waiting outside. That's not what I would have done and I definitely wouldn't have said sorry.
I think its worse when the suspects know the victims and still have courage enough to break into that person's home.
In the community of Natomas in Sacremento, four suspects in their 20's kicked the front door in and attacked a 70-year-old woman who was babysitting her grandchild.?Police officials state that the suspects knew the victim.
A while back, I helped my aunt and grandma move into a house out towards the Spring Branch area. After my mom and I arrived home, my aunt called us, frantically raving about how a bloody man in only his underwear went running into the house claiming he needed to hide. Luckily my uncle was there and after my grandmother and cousins ran into the bathroom, he hit the man in the back with a chair. When the police arrived they asked all kinds of questions. All my family could tell them was that some crazy, bloody man came running in. It seems he was on crack and had stabbed himself numerous times before running down the street. The day they moved in was the day they moved out.
Home burglaries, the most preventable crimes, occur frequently.
In 2006, Houston statistics revealed there were 26,869 burglaries total. The level is worse than the national average.
I don't understand why someone would have to invade someone's home to take what doesn't belong to them. The concept alone will never be understood, but why someone's home. Someone worked for it and put all their hard effort into it. How can someone with absolutely no heart and right mind enter that house and feel they have the right to strip it of its possessions.
I see nothing wrong with going to the extreme to protect one's home and loved ones. If the criminal has courage enough to enter someone's home uninvited, they need to remember the consequences along with it. A perfect example is the story of Micheal Six who beat off a burglar with a baseball bat after the intruder broke into his home and entered his bedroom. He hid in his closet after seeing the man enter his house through a sliding glass door broken with a screwdriver. However, Six had mercy and after Garza, the intruder, fell to the floor he yelled "Sorry, man!" and ran to police waiting outside. That's not what I would have done and I definitely wouldn't have said sorry.
I think its worse when the suspects know the victims and still have courage enough to break into that person's home.
In the community of Natomas in Sacremento, four suspects in their 20's kicked the front door in and attacked a 70-year-old woman who was babysitting her grandchild.?Police officials state that the suspects knew the victim.
A while back, I helped my aunt and grandma move into a house out towards the Spring Branch area. After my mom and I arrived home, my aunt called us, frantically raving about how a bloody man in only his underwear went running into the house claiming he needed to hide. Luckily my uncle was there and after my grandmother and cousins ran into the bathroom, he hit the man in the back with a chair. When the police arrived they asked all kinds of questions. All my family could tell them was that some crazy, bloody man came running in. It seems he was on crack and had stabbed himself numerous times before running down the street. The day they moved in was the day they moved out.
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