When I was like 6 we came home from dinner one night and found the garage entrance to the house (36" man-door) open as well as the door into the actual house open. My mom stayed with me and my brother and my dad grabbed a golf club and headed in. Long story short my dad caught the guys heading to the other side of the house and they hauled butt when they saw him out the front door. They made off with something like $75k in jewelry. This was mostly hand me down stuff from realtives and was of-course non-replaceable. The Conroe Police came and didn't do a dang thing except to take a statement. By the way this was in a VERY nice subdivision off of Longmire Road heading towards League Line Rd. Those who know the Conroe area understand what I mean when I say VERY. So yeah it can happen anywhere. This was also around 1988 so Conroe was still somewhat low crime at that point. We actually had our vehicles broken into about a year later though and they made off with my parents center console thingeys (I'm sure people remember these. Back in the 80's cars didn't come with center consoles and so my parents used those igloo center console coolers for one
). Anyway if it was me I think I honestly would have drawn and if he didn't stop fired at the guy. Now this is just me with the kind of jewelry in say my or my parents house. If he's running off with say my PS2 I'm just going to draw but if he doesn't stop I'll let him run. If he's running with one my guns I'm probably not going to give him a chance to drop it considering he might have loaded it.
As another side I love french doors but I hate how easy they are to push open. A good security system and a dog can thrawt this kind of behavior most of the time though.