Are you seriously proposing the death penalty be reintroduced for stealing a vehicle? Do you realize how idiotic that sounds? As your man and a horse analogy and this idiot with a gun both demonstrate, a long standing problem in Anchorage is that we have too many cowboys who think this is the wild west and that disagreements and property crimes are best solved with bullets.
Don't leave your vehicle running with the keys inside. Get lojack. Whip out your phone and call 911 instead of your gun.