Do what ever it takes to keep yours safe , but be sure to stay within the law . Do know of an incident though , that pushed the boundary of personal property protection , over here in Aussie anyway .
Some people I know had caught 2 scum in the act of ransacking their place of work . They got hold of both scum and proceeded to really hurt them , and I mean knocked the poop out of them . The scum were then secured for transport and driven a distance away and dumped and left free but unable to walk away exactly . That was a lot of years ago and nothing was ever heard about that .
Really like that type of justice better than most any judicial system , but those people were lucky , no sort of law comeback eventuated from dealing out that sort of enforcement . Each to his own I guess when it comes down to protecting one's family and life investments .