I know the incidents you speak of but fighting hand to hand is much different from facing an equipped SF member.
Show me a single story where an elite SF member was killed by civilians while armed.
The trouble is, if this guy can be tracked down to his home address, he isn’t likely to be tooled up with his team on high alert as if he was on ops in the Hindu Kush, he’s going to be at home, going to the store, driving to work (dropping the kids off!) and doing the kind of things most normal people do.
Is he supposed to spend the rest of his life at condition orange/red? Even if he could, it isn’t really fair that he has been put in the position of having to be.