"The criminals just want to defend themselves from home owners"

A human being with allegedly a functional brain uttered that sentence. Let it sink into you that immediately after that she says "and to coerce the homeowner into cooperating" thus admitting the weapon is being used for a purpose not involving self defence.

So even if we acknowledge the criminal even has a right to self defence instead of instantly forfeiting their right to exist through their actions even then the homeowners right to self defence kicks in when the criminal brandishes the weapon at the home owner thus validating castle doctrine.

In short fuck this idiot.