Tony Martin all over again. Householder may well be a prick and not a very nice man, but if you don't want to die in the course of burgling such a person's house, don't burgle it in the first place. If you do, and he catches you and comes back to give what you have coming, society should suck it up as necessary population reduction.
The police "service" don't attend burglaries or consider theft - whether carried out with the threat of violence or otherwise - worthy of investigation. In this environment, where the covenant has been broken - abandoned - people (whatever their character) will take the law into their own hands. You reap what you sow, as an individual and a society.