On reflection, the real question is whether you're home at the time, since that makes it the castle doctrine instead of "defense of property." At which point you're free to go full Home Alone a la Last Crusade. The penitent doorkicker kneels! bzzZZZzzzt
A famous legal case defining what is and isn't allowed for defense of property, specifically about lethal booby traps to stop trespassing. It basically says that you can't use lethal force to defend property using booby traps as they are indiscriminate and therefore cannot determine if certain criteria (i.e. reasonable fear for your life) are met.
I want it on record, stenographers please take this down...I am anti-Ted Bundy. I don't care what charming, yet down to earth actor played him in the biopic. Glorifying a serial killer through entertainment is wrong. I haven't seen it, I do not intend to do so, now or ever, thank you, good night.
The people who make these memes aren't the same people who like the cops. There are some very confused people who think 'no step on snek' and prostrating themselves before the ones who'd be doing the stepping makes some kind of sense, but they're also the same people who think climate change isn't real and vaccines kill people. Their opinion is irrelevant.