Hmmm, Down here in Redneck country Forcible entry is met with "Armed Resistance" (and I am not talking about Baseball-bats!) Why didn't these folks use a weapon to... Oh sorry missed the part about Seattle... Never Mind!
(It must be loads of fun to live in Liberal La La land where guns are prohibited for defense! Glad to see the Police showed up to charge the Criminals with "Possession of Alcohol!" I bet all those Kids feel much safer now! /Sarcasm)
Well Seattle has a lot of liberals but Washington is a 50/50 split state in terms of politics but has been trending liberal, just like a lot of states with big cities and massive immigrant influx. It's a "red" state with a "blue" fringe in the Seattle area. Unfortunately the blue fringe has more voters in it then the entire rest of the red state. "LaLa Land" is California.
Washington has a "right to carry" law. Many southern states do not. Only Vermont has "no permit" carry, which is the only Constitutional option, in my opinion.
If a group of uninvited thugs tried to crash a party at my younger brother's house, they would end up with some large caliber holes in them; he keeps a 380 in his glovebox, a .38 snubby in the office and a few other toys laying about.
The local sheriff would look at the corpse with the holes in it and call it, "the worst case of suicide I ever saw".