Batman, you have my sympathy; Minnesota is a beautiful state (I used to live in Ely), but there are way too many Demosocialists/liberals living there, as reflected in the laws and the voting results. If you ever face an intruder, you could always let him back you into a room or corner where you have no escape route and then...
Unfortunately, the courts have made letting thugs take your possessions the lesser of two evils, which gives me a king size case of the red*ss; Your possessions are YOURS - YOU worked and earned them, not some scumbag thief or some skank prosecuting attorney. You should be able to defend them by any means necessary, including the use of deadly force - that is, if our "justice" system had its collective mind right.