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"You have no right to complain about treatment you recieve from anyone that you have threatened to harm or have created a situation which within they feel they may be harmed. A burgler creates that situation by the act of breaking and entering."

If you are stating this as a moral assertion, that's one thing. But I don't think it's true in a legal sense. I believe that you have to be facing deadly force to use deadly force. I do know that people have been prosecuted for shooting home invaders in the back as they were trying to flee, the interpretation being that since they were trying to run away they no longer posed a threat.

I was making a moral assertion. Legally, in Maryland, they have an obligation to use minimal force. The victims in this case may have over-reacted in terms of the law, but the judge in this case decided that they were in an understandable state of frustration due to the inaction on the part of the responsible Governmental agencies that are to protect their property in return for the surrender of rights to defend their own property as they see fit.

A violation of a social contract on one side does not justify a violation from the other side, but in this case the judge said that they were excused.