[ExTxMarine]

It's never okay to use deadly force to defend personal property.

I have heard said that if I kill someone for stealing my property I must value my things more than their life.

I say if he is willing to get killed for my personal property he valued my stuff more than he did his life!

I spent YEARS away from my wife and four daughters to purchase the cars, TVs, game consoles, computers, house, lawnmowers, tractors, etc...which I own...I will be damned if this low-life will force me to work years away again to replace them!

HE HAS NO RIGHT TO DO THIS TO ME NOR MY FAMILY!

[takebackaustin]

I sympathize, and feel the same that stealing property from a working person is stealing his life in part, but if you get to chase down and kill somebody because he stole your lawnmower that took maybe a month to clear enough cash to buy, can a Bernie Madoff client who lost his entire life’s retirement savings of millions of dollars chase him down and kill him? What’s the difference?

And how much of your life ( property value expressed in what time you take to clear it) on the low end? Ten seconds? Ten hours? Ten days?