04-18-2018, 01:09 PM
(04-18-2018, 01:07 PM)fredtoast Wrote: "Burglary" is nothing more than an "entering" with intent to commit another crime (usually theft). There is nothing violent about it.
In every state I know of a burglary of a home or occupied residence is an "aggravated burglary" and much more serious than an auto burglary or a burglary of a storage shed or empty business.
Obviously there are times when burglaries involve violence, and these should be treated as violent crimes. But a burglary by itself is not violent.
This.
Because a situation has potential to be violent doesn't mean we automatically escalate it to it's worst possible outcome. That isn't how we make laws in this country, we offer varying degrees of malice to allow for appropriate punishments. Trying to sweep everything into a big over reaching category is something we have done many times, and it has been proven to be a failure many times.
