Just from my point of view. I can't see abandoning my house because some criminal decides to break in. As far as I know I can make a citizen's arrest and call the cops. If the person is not threatening me and they run, I am no allowed to shoot them. If they attack me, I'm allowed to defend myself. I certainly would not want to kill someone over some property. It would not make moral sense to me. Someone a few years go in Omaha, was working in a store and a 16 yo kid walks in, picks up some beer and walks out the door. The proprietor chases him down the street with a gun and shoots and kills him. The store was closed, the proprietor charged with murder. The kid is dead. Not only would I have trouble living with myself if I killed someone over something so minor, just from the point of view of the consequences, I would not want to wreck my life and my family that way. I tend to like "stand your ground" laws just because they at least delineate clearly that I don't have to run from a criminal who is trying to steal my property or attack me. I don't know that I'm required to anyway, but in some places it has been interpreted that way. I seriously doubt that the incidents that have been presented by the media as being caused by "stand your ground" laws would not have happened anyway. Belligerence and stupidity have always been around before those laws and will continue to be around regardless of the law.