I agree. Things need to move on to the next level. Holding back is pointless. Let’s go.
Right now, most of the country except the hard left will be horrified by this. It is our chance to swing opinion back into respecting freedom of speech, shutting up the "words are violence" and "silence is violence" dirtbags, and actually uniting most of the country behind the right ideas.
Responding to their random acts of violence with our own undermines everything, and plays into their hands. Let them reap the public reaction to their own excesses.