I don't care if they are running towards me, or away from me ... they took my stuff, and I am fixing to get it back. Frankly, I care more about a used Kleenix on the floor of the pickup, than I care about the life of a burlar. There is a real simple rule here - "If it ain't yours, leave it alone".
When I lived in Austin, we used to see a lot of signs that said "There is nothing I own, that is worth your life."
God Bless Texas. All the states need laws like this.
I’ve explained thievery to my son this way. When you steal from someone, you’re not just taking “stuff”. Someone spent time out of their life to work to get that “stuff”, time that they can never, ever get back.
So while whatever you stole may be replaceable, the time it took for them to earn the money to buy that stuff isn’t replaceable, ever. God isn’t going to say “Oh, someone stole your car and it took you 3 years to earn the money to pay for it so I’m going to add 3 extra years to your life.” That ain’t the way it works.
Theft isn’t just taking someones stuff, it’s stealing time out of their life and it’s long past time we start looking at it that way.