[TexasGator]

“The modern-day automobile is the equivalent of the horse in the old west. And horse thieves used to be shot or hanged in the old west. Just saying.”

What are you saying?

[kiryandil]

IATG

[EvilCapitalist]

I’m saying you don’t steal a man’s horse/car.

[SamuraiScot]

"The modern-day automobile is the equivalent of the horse in the old west."

What are you saying?

It sounds as if he is saying people can't really get around without their cars, which cost half-a-year's wages for most people--as a horse did, in the old days. So, stealing a car is a serious threat to the owner's livelihood--and perhaps his life, in a neighborhood like that, where you wouldn't want to walk unprotected.

Did you find his analogy unclear?