[zip]

"The fact that your car is being stolen isn't a legal justification for killing somebody,

This is Kalifornicator so the victim is required to go out to the crooks/thugs/druggies and give them the keys and a credit card to get gas. I can't believe he didn't know that. </sarcasm off>

Now to the serious part - I truely feel the victim had every right to terminate one more criminal. I was a victim of home robbery and lost guns etc. I would have shot the perp on the spot because the law WILL NOT do anything to them. My perp has a 5 year SIS, and 2 year SIS, credit card theft and use so he spent 30 days in jail, was jailed on theft over 2500 from a store in the mall, released without bond and is walking the streets. So don't tell me that the law works. My friends S and W will protect me not the law.

[RonF]

Then you, without your friends S&W, will end up in jail. I certainly sympathize with you and share your outrage! But regardless of what state you live in, you're going to have to make the case that you had reason to feel that your life was in danger in order to legally use deadly force. This is not unique to California.