Wealth AND opportunity spread evenly? Surely its one or the other. If you spread wealth evenly there is no opportunity and if you spread opportunity evenly then everyone has a fair chance to accumulate wealth. Its communism vs. capitalism.
4 men break into the house, after several previous break-ins, at night and the householder is afraid of what they might do. He confronts them and shoots two of them. Fully justified.
He felt threatened for his life after several previous breakins, which caused them to move out for a while, and managed to wound two of them. SHame he didn't get the other two.
How do you know they're "rich people"? The yhave a house in the country, which has been burgled several times. That doesn't make them rich and maybe they worked hard for every penny. Seems to me you have a chip on your shoulder about people who manage not to live in the gutter or on the proceeds...