This meme nails it because it cuts through all the fake moral confusion surrounding self-defense.
There is a very strange argument on the left that asks law-abiding people to care more about the criminal’s choices than their own family, their own safety, and their own home.
That is backward.
Nobody forces a burglar to break into someone else’s house.
Nobody forces a criminal to climb through a window, kick in a door, or invade the one place a family is supposed to feel safe.
That decision belongs to the criminal.
The homeowner is not the one who created the danger. The homeowner is reacting to it.
That is the part the soft-on-crime crowd always seems to skip.
They want to turn the victim into the villain and the intruder into some kind of misunderstood casualty of circumstance.
But when someone breaks into a home, the threat is no longer theoretical.
The people inside that home do not know the intruder’s intentions.
They do not know if he is there for jewelry, cash, violence, ...