Those who make peaceful redress impossible will make violence inevitable. Such has always been true. It didn’t have to be this way, but it has become abundantly clear that those we used to call brothers and countrymen have decided, immutably, that our survival is incompatible with theirs. They speak of compromise, but by compromise they mean surrender and extinction. They consider us monsters, evil incarnate. They are lost to us. We have no choice but to prepare for the inevitable, and prepare hard because our survival depends on our ability to organize and mobilize resources. Pray for peace. Prepare for the worst.