When Ms. Wolfe wrote these words, it was perhaps too early to shoot the bastards. No longer. Now it may very well be too late. In any case, what restrains the shooters is not a lack of outrage or courage, but a desire for peace that the government masters utterly lack. "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government"