Actually, our cake was taken away, and we can't eat it, or whatever. The public is caught in a catch-22: it is illegal to defend ourselves physically against a

Actually, our cake was taken away, and we can't eat it, or whatever. The public is caught in a catch-22: it is illegal to defend ourselves physically against attackers (we can be held liable for harming an attacker, and often for posessing a self-defense weapon, and so criminals are emboldened, knowing we are defenseless), and yet the police provide no guarantee of protection against crime, and in fact are frequent perpetrators of violent accidents against civilians. Like sheep to slaughter we go.