“Naked and monstrous, a huge man-like thing covered in blood breaks into your home in the middle of the night. He is wearing a belt upon which the body parts of small murdered children are hanging. He is well-armed, and unthinkably skillful and cunning. He is rabidly, catastrophically insane.

The stink of this abomination could knock down trees.

The monster demands to know where your children are, and briefly indicates that you are to immediately assist him in capturing, binding, murdering, and butchering them. If you do not immediately follow his instructions, he will find them by himself and, as a ‘lesson’, he will make you watch while he kills them and everything else that moves in a 12-block radius.

With a glance, you know he can make good on his threat for a simple reason: you trained him. You armed him. You endowed him with the mandate he will now carry out at any and all costs. All costs.

What do you do? Your kids are in the back room wetting themselves. The monster you so carefully assembled with your own work, stupidity, and willingness to follow idiots now stands naked and frothing before you.

What do you do?”

— every citizen of the USA