100% this. If you think theft is just a taking of a piece of candy, you are sorely mistaken. We own a small business, theft can mean that our family has to do without so we can make up the deductible on insurance. Also so we can pay the rising insurance rate. Plus, we have had a few break ins. We have to spend time and money from our family cleaning up broken glass, replacing stolen items, and the feeling of being violated, intruded upon... I have a friend who had their car stolen. It was returned, even after the police "cleaned it", with drug needles, drugs, etc hidden all over it. They couldn't use the car again. Couldn't put their kids in it. Had to sell it and buy another car... at what cost? It wasn't a straight across swap. House break ins.. man, I'll kill anyone who breaks in. I don't care if you needed a drug fix or jewelry or what, but you're dead. The violating feeling, the loss of personal money/time/security, yea, theft is a small murder to me. I think thieves should be dead if caught. I hate that I have to teach my kids that it'll happen to them at some point, because our society sucks. It sucks. Punishment of getting shot CERTAINLY DOES fit the crime.