i think we have to separate the situations, if you are threatened in your house or stopping some one breaking in, it's one thing. if on the other hand the rippers are in your garden chopping down plants, it's another situation all together. as long as they are in your garden fucking with your plants, you better not use lethal force, else you'll be going to prison for a long time. if they are trying to get in the house with you there, only then can you talk about self defense imo.
Exactly, thanks for summing things up. Would only use deadly defense if my life was in danger, not my plants life.