I think these signs are funny, but I have little use for them.
I try to maintain a "grey man" persona with regards to my prepping. I'm a little secretive about my guns, preps, and so on, as I don't want to get targeted by professional burglers.
With some strange, oddball exceptions that don't seem relevant to this conversation, I only have the guns to protect life . . . not property.
If a thief steals my TV and I gun him down in the process, I'll probably be exonerated in court . . . after spending $70,000.00 in legal fees on some bottom-feeding, predatory defense lawyer.
Note that I can replace the TV for a few hundred dollars, so do the math.
The gun is not to protect my pride, my masculinity, or my dignity. The purpose of the gun is not exercise some questionable, ambiguous "stand your ground" principle. The gun is for a mass-shooter when I'm at the synagogue, a Ted Bundy who wants to torture and kill my girlfriend, a pit bull that has flipped out and is mauling a child, euthanising a dog that I accidentally hit with my car, or a rabid raccoon that is staggering around in broad daylight.
Things can--for the most part--be replaced. I don't want to bankrupt myself by spending my life savings on a legal defense over an issue of "right vs. wrong" because of a television, my stamp collection, or a stereo . . . even if I'm in the right.
I hope no one thinks of me as a coward for making these points, but I tend to think in practical terms as I am--after all--an ex-paramedic.