Thanks for all the well wishes everyone. The family is okay. Just shaken up.
Here's what happened per my wife
Broad daylight (around 10:30-11AM, someone rings the bell out front....incessantly. My wife never answers the door when I'm not home unless expecting someone. She runs upstairs to take a look down at the front door. She sees them, still ringing the bell. She calls 911 at this point.....then they break in the front door. Frame is shattered.
She is terrified and runs into one of the upstairs bedroom closets while these scumbags ransack the downstairs. Took my computer and two sets of car keys. Obviously they were intending to steal the cars in the garage.
One of them makes their way upstairs....and finds my wife. He yells something in Spanish to the other and they run off.
Cops meanwhile are driving towards my neighborhood. They know they're looking for Hispanic males. He sees a truck leaving the area. They make eye contact and he runs the stop sign....bingo. But it's either chase them or get to my wife who is alone at home where there may still be intruders.
Roadblocks are put up, helicopters, K-9 unit. They crashed their truck a few miles away and ran on foot. Found one guy's shoes in someone's backyard. Dogs found him with bloody feet. Found a second suspect as well. One was only 15 y.o. Immediately asked for his 'mommy'.
While this is all happening, I'm doing 110 on the freeway speeding home from work after my wife calls me with the cops there.
My wife ID'd one of them, wasn't sure about the other. But many prints were left (these idiots didn't wear gloves). CSI unit was here dusting. They're toast.
I'm still traumatized not because of the broken door or missing computer. Just the thought that my wife could have been harmed......my life would be over.
Just wish I was home. Mossberg out. Intruders dead. End of story.
As for my wife being armed, she 'tolerates' my guns, but will not carry or use one. I bought her pepper spray which she has...at the bottom of her purse. I hope this all wakes her up a bit.