He said then that excessive force shouldn’t be used just because someone was stealing from you
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A few years back my bicycle was stolen. Had I caught the thief in the act, I would have shot him/her.
That wasn’t just any bicycle, that was my bicycle.
We had a rash of bike thefts in our neighborhood when our boys were young. I wanted to wire a bike to an electric cord, leave it outside and wet the ground, to cause the thief to have an "accident". Mrs. JimRed in her wisdom forbid it.