Or a wall and a machine gun, a la Tsar Nicolai and family. But I hope we can do something effective while stopping short of that. The dynamics that were involved in The Terror and The Bolshevik Revolution both degenerated into wretched excess, the sort you or I or people in our extended families, who had little, if anything to do with creating the problem.

But yes, I have imagined scenarios where gatherings of the ultra rich are targets of opportunity. The tip of Manhattan at 10:00 AM on a triple witching could be one such, for those so inclined. Far better that people are brought to their senses via the law, but.....

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."