“If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore, what he must be taught to fear is his victim.” — Lt. Col. Jeff Copper, U.S.M.C.
Make felons fear again. Lawbreakers do not fear the long arm of the law and God-haters do not fear the wrath of God. The break laws because they do not expect to get caught the ignore God because they are already in the habit of not thinking much about Him. That leaves the victim of the crime. If the villain learns to fear his victims, his villainy will be forced to subside. He won't have the chutzpah to pull off much if he has to consider that he may end up being the one getting got if he tries something. It reminds me a little boys. They all want to be boxers because they all want the chance to bonk someone in the brain box, but they fail to consider that their opponent will have the opportunity to sock them in the mouth as well.
"How we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
Give your would-be assassins the gift of anxiety. Make yourself a hard target. Let them wonder about the outcome and increase their concern for their own safety. Always resist at the first crime scene. Whatever they are willing to do in broad daylights pales in comparison to what they will be willing to do to you behind closed doors. It may see excessive when the stakes are small, but if you don't resist at that point, when it is easier, you won't be able to later when they take excessive action against you with no one around to notice or stop them.
"The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. It is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists. It is no answer to say, with a distant optimism, that the scheme is only in the air. A blow from a hatchet can only be parried while it is in the air." — G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils
Make felons fear again. Give them the gift of timidity by your temerity.
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