Yes. [That ... doesn't really have much hesitation.]

We might, one day, bring them down and get them facing their crimes. But unless we're willing to use every chance we have to defend ourselves? Either we'll not manage to wound them more than a prick in the ankle, or whatever we do, will be a fast, bloody blaze of glory that none of us will survive.

We don't have a safety net. There's no-one but us to look out for ourselves here.