Shop broke into

I've been ripped off although it has been years ago. I hate a thief. I'm not a spring chicken anymore and during our lives we meet many different people in our travels' Years ago I met a man that had killed 8 people. He got life in prison ( this was before life without parole ) and served 33 years for it. I had a lot more respect for him than I do a thief. He and 2 cousin's had a trailer they lived in and didn't get along with the people across the street. One day as he got out of the shower he heard gunshots and quickly left the bathroom and grabbed a shotgun and some shells. As he started up the hall, one neighbor came into the hall with a rifle and he shot him and kept heading for the living room. Another guy showed in the hall with a gun and he shot him. As he got to the living room the third guy saw him and ran for the door. He shot him in the back. That was when he found his cousins dead in the living room. He was so mad he got more shells and went across the street and kill 5 more. I'm sure he wasn't in his right mind when that happen. But the point was that after spending all those years in prison he couldn't stand a thief. He always said a thief has no morals.
00 buck shot is what they need but even rock salt will put you in jail unless you can prove they were attacking you or your family. Something is wrong with that.
I once heard about a guy that was attacked in his home one night buy a guy with a baseball bat. They fought and he got the bat and beat the thief. He got sued and lost because the thief said after the victim had the bat, there was no threat of danger and thief became the victim.
BS.