I think it’s also that each individual person is so isolated and each small geographic region has such a lack of interconnected community. Each individual person, no matter how well armed or courageous, is nearly powerless against these organized paramilitary occupying forces in their communities.

A couple dozen guys with rifles and body armor, an armored personnel carrier, breaching charges, a surveillance drone. You’d think Osama bin Laden was in that house.

Do it. Do the right thing for the wrong reason, you giant man-baby.