That self-defense class advice is not intended for home break-ins. It's fine for altercations in public, where there's a safer place you can flee to. But homes are supposed to be the safest place. They ARE the place you flee to from danger. And you're delusional if you think fleeing is a viable response to a home break-in. My bedroom is on the second floor of my home. If someone has broken in and is standing at my bedroom door, I'm not even going to have time to open the window before they're on me. and even if I did, then I would have to risk breaking my legs by jumping out the window. I'm sorry, but I should not have to seriously injure myself as a standard response to a thug breaking into my house. I wouldn't want to live in a place where we would expect a potential rape or murder victim to cripple themselves rather than letting a potential rapist receive the consequences of their own actions.

As far as the whining about US gun ownership rates, you're offering solutions for a world that doesn't exist.

And that is possible when the average joe doesn’t own a gun. So I will not respect the decision to shot someone 5 times just because “he acted exactly as they were taught”, maybe he should’ve taken a self defense course for self defense without a gun idk

In other words, you're going to completely ignore the actual lived experiences of Americans and offer advice that's only applicable in a perfect world that doesn't exist. And honestly, your advice would be terrible even if no one in the US owned a gun. Frankly, as a 5'5" who weighs a buck and a quarter, I'm glad firearms are an option if I want to practice self-defense. I'm not going to be in any position to physically defend myself from an intruder. In that case, my only hope of self-defense is a firearm.

I have a simpler solution to all this. How about if you don't want to get shot, you don't break into people's houses! If you break into someone's house, whatever happens to you as a consequence is on you. You should expect people to assume you are a rapist or a murderer and act accordingly. And that's not an unreasonable thing for victims to do. You cannot know why someone is in your home. You do not have time to find out. You have a split second to either put them down or have them on top of you. Maybe they're only there to rob you, but by the time you find that out, it's too late.