I agree with you Charles, I am not shooting someone over a TV/car/$100 either, but that was not what I said either. I said it would lawful to shoot the guy nt that I would shoot him. I simply recited the law to point out just how much danger he would put himself in if he tried a firearms grab.
I agree with you. Very dangerous for someone to try to grab a gun from my holster. And it is good the law in Washington recognizes that as a case where use of deadly force is justified.
I simply wanted to point out my personal mind set in such cases is based on the common law right to defend life and limb, rather than on whether any particular State law makes theft of a gun a crime warranting use of deadly force to end.
As another example, years ago I learned that Arizona law permitted use of deadly force to
prevent arson of an occupied structure or unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. The proverbial daughter's boyfriend crawling through the window came to mind. But law or no, I think it would be imprudent to use deadly force against my daughter's boyfriend for conduct that she was (materially even if not technically legally) "consenting" to. Even if technically legal, I just don't think I want to defend myself (legally, socially, to my own conscience) for using deadly force in that case.
If I honestly believed she was being assaulted against her will, that warrants deadly force to stop.
(It has been 20+ years since I read that law, no idea what changes may have been made, or even whether I read it correctly. So don't act on anything here until confirming the current law.)
Deadly force really is the last option I ever intend to employ. The very last, and only when innocent life or limb is at immediate, imminent, credible risk from criminal assault.
Charles