Make sure there is nothing in your car worth stealing. From the outside looking in, my Jeep is sterile, not even a phone charging cable is visible. My car kit with recovery and survival gear is in the hatch with the cargo cover pulled. It is well insured and not worth a trip to jail for me. I see this at work all the time on day shift. People leaving phones, wallets, bags, laptops, GUNS, mail, other paperwork in their vehicle, then wondering why their car was broken into. I have to stifle laughter when I figure out the car was unlocked too. Your car is not a safe or holster.
Lock your rides, hide your stuff, turn on exterior lighting. It's pretty easy. I won't be shooting or attacking anyone breaking into or stealing my car, even with case law in WA making it essentially legal. It's not worth the long and expensive legal battle to follow.
Someone making forcible entry into my home is a different matter and WA has a clearly defined Inference of Intent statute relating to residential burglary.
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