It can be. My dad would tell me growing up about home protection something along the lines of, "if someone breaks in and just wants the TV in the living room (o

It can be. My dad would tell me growing up about home protection something along the lines of, "if someone breaks in and just wants the TV in the living room (or other living room type items), it ain't worth it to put my body in harm's way to stop them over a $300 TV. If they start coming back to the bedroom area of the house, its a different ballgame because they aren't looking just to steal something." Now as an adult with a two story town home, I have the same line of thinking. If someone breaks in is just staying down stairs, it ain't worth it. Once they hit the stairs to come to the bedrooms, its a different ballgame. And yea on stealing things. I remember someone locally was stealing Cadillac symbols on cars, it made big news, and my dad telling me something like, "don't assume the person is a bad person. They could just be feeding their kids." This was during the 2008-crisis and with an emphasis of, yea they are stealing, but it is rather benign in comparison to what they could be stealing.