Homeowner shoots thief

In earlier days, in this country, very much for that sort of reason, stealing a horse was a capital offense.

If you stole a man's horse, you were stealing his ability to make a living, to survive. Very possibly condemning him to death.

We would be a much safer, healthier society, if we treated modern criminals who steal things that are crucial to anyone else's ability to thrive in a similar manner.

Even if you don't steal something that a man needs to make his living, you're certainly stealing the part of his life that he spent working to earn the wealth to buy that thing.
The failure is in parenting. I was taught at a very young age that I owned some things. I knew what I owned and what I did not own. It was WRONG to take something that did not belong to me. End of story.
 

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