As to gasoline thieves I will surely be sitting off a 100 yards plinking people who approach my vehicle. With what will I plink them, that's up to me.
If I saw a dude bleeding out with a rotten gas can in his hand and some car owner putting his knife away I would nod like Doctor Leonard McCoy.

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At the end of every episode of the Rifleman tv show, from sam pekinpah's childhood the true west, we see typical dirtbags dead. Saves the cost of a hanging.