Like Punching the Firefighter.

Some evils are so extreme and cunning and dangerous to our society that they must be met with a type and level of force that is unsettling to us.

We must equip people with skills and weapons and authorise them to deploy in the shadows where this lawless evil lurks.

Indeed, the evils are either hidden in plain sight from the naive, or so confronting that we shut our eyes and turn away …

… towards those small numbers of us who are willing to defend our laws and values and common good against the evil.

We glimpse what they are required to do in our name - and we recoil in horror.

In our privileged position distant from the fight - we point and shout at our few: ‘How dare you!’

We protest in the street and write letters to the editor and post rants to camera and run for parliament on policies promising to stop the few.

Like fighting the arsonist by punching the firefighter.