You ask a reasonable question. The issue is what do we do after the attack? It must be made perfectly clear that if such attacks continue we can relearn how to decorate trees. In short, we must become nasty once more we have, as a race, the right to defend ourselves and others. An attack on one is an attack on all should be the rule.
” The issue is what do we do after the attack?”
If I had witnessed this attack, I would have done all I could to kill the perp before his protectors could arrive