True, but even there you'd have to know exactly what you were dealing with. For example in the case of MS13 (which was operating just six blocks from my last high school teaching assignment) they favor the use of a machete on a victim and if you back them down they will pursue you and your entire family all the way to uncles and aunts many times removed without rest or mercy until everybody is dead. So you'd need to go all MACK BOLAN on them if you decide to engage and any of them live to tell the tale. They'd never stop and they have an unlimited supply of soldiers....
The alternative is surrender. Sure they fight. But eventually we will or surrender. No other choices here. Thats simple reality. I know it isn’t a game or a mental exercize. People are gonna die. Our people. But that does not change reality. They WILL come for us one way or the other.