“Catch your second breath, get back up and continue to do whatever you can to patriotically and peacefully defend...”
The time to “peacefully defend” the republic is gone. There will be no peaceful coexistence with enemies of the republic. And make no mistake, these creatures are our enemies, and they are quite frank about the fact. They would celebrate your destruction. We are a nation whose laws are now fungible and unequally applied. The only law that matters now is survival, and by any means necessary.
Does a virus or cancer or auto immune disease peacefully coexist with it's host? Somehow we chose to live with the illness and now look at us. "We waited too long." - Titanic