we are also a large family and when one was threatened all and friends would be near by only if needed as in the case of THEM all jumping in - not to take on 1 .
This was not a fair fight or anything close to one and does not illustrate conservative values.
As my drill instructors told us over and over again - in battle, there are the winners and there are the dead. The same philosophy was used to raise our children.
Rules in any kind of battle are for the dead. Read my tagline. If that’s not conservative, I’d rather stand with George Patton, Chesty Puller, Lew Walt and others espousing similar sentiments.