Comment by Insanity
2 days ago
Agreed with you actually. This might be me not being a native English speaker, and 'home invasion' and 'breaking and entering' where the same thing in my mind. But with the differences between the two that you've highlighted here, I do agree that different situations require different approaches.
Breaking-and-entering is an Irish term from their British occupation. When a British landlord evicted his tenants, he would board up the door.
The term comes from tenants breaking the boarded up door and entering their own home.