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cb1000rider wrote:I don't think many people on this forum, even the more liberal ones are indicating that they'd lay down arms with someone actively trying to kill them.
I see a lot of "a thief is a thief" and "they get what they deserve" if they're killed stealing...
Then I think back to quite a few people that I've known that did stupid things between being a kid and an adult. None of which went on to be career criminals.
Everyone gets to make their own decision. Clearly it's not black and white.

There is a world of difference between someone stealing something to feed their family and someone stealing something because they want money to buy new b-ball shoes, or an X-Box, or some other non-essential item. I'd guess that of the theft we see in the USA, very little of it falls in the first category.

I voted no due to the simple fact that since I'm just a blue-collar type, I cannot afford to fight a legal system that would attempt its best to incarcerate me for defending my property. The sociopolitical system in this nation places a higher value on the life of a thief than it does on the hours of my life that the thief would take away from me if they mis-appropriate my property. Even though I turned hours of my life into a monetary value by working to acquire said property, hours that I will never get back, those hours are deemed less valuable than the hours of life of a thief. That galls me to no end, but it is what it is.