Why does it seem like Americans are obsessed over home invasions? Do you have a lot of them?
Constantly see people online talk about "when the robber comes thru my door" or whatever, and some of it is memes, but a lot of it is just people legit discussing what the "best weapon" to fight robbers breaking into your house at night would be - Giving it so much thought as if it is a legitimate concern. So is it? Does it happen a lot?
Castle Doctrine is a legal framework for justifiying the protecting of your home with violence. I think boomers watched too many cowboy media when they were young. It basically informs their whole worldview at this point.
That’s this whole country, it was founded on people constantly worried about natives trying to violently take what the settlers saw as rightfully stolen.