General Discussion

alone was sexually assaulted and in the first case killed (she happened to be a young mother home with her child AND she was pregnant again -- like three or four months if I remember correctly -- her husband came home to find her murdered on the floor. The second woman was a young mother too and she had her child with her (a toddler). The men beat the hell out of her and repeatedly threatened her life and she was lucky she survived at all. The incidents were random attacks. And of course in neither case was much stolen -- mainly just petty cash (who keeps large amounts of cash around these days?), a credit card that wasn't usable, a few pieces of not-expensive jewelry, a few electronics. Yet now there is a motherless child (first case) and a woman (second case) who will likely deal with severe ptsd and brain injury for the rest of her life.

Home invasions absolutely do happen (someone was posting that they think there is always another story -- there obviously are random home invasions. They absolutely do happen, and the motivation can be as stupid as one can imagine). Look at the hideous, infamous case in Connecticut when those two monsters tortured that family for hours before burning their house to the ground. I believe in gun control but I also believe that a person has the right to own a gun, responsibly and trained appropriately of course, to protect the home.

In a case like this it seems ridiculous to me to say "oh he just had a knife" or "they weren't reeeeaaaally going to hurt anybody." Persons who break into homes when residents are home are already considered much, much more dangerous and more likely to rape and kill than thieves who deliberately wait until they KNOW the house is empty.