Let my big stick be the law. And in that regard, this matters. Actually, the law only ever matters where protection is “inadequate”, as per your definition. If

Let my big stick be the law. And in that regard, this matters. Actually, the law only ever matters where protection is “inadequate”, as per your definition. If we all lived in bunkers and had a personal protection detail, we wouldn’t need any of those laws. But we’d waste endless amounts of money, and ultimately failing the second any aggressor is able to outspent us even just temporary, or surprising us.