I don't support any call for vigilantism, but I do think that we should carry on life as normal, which means patronising our local shops, restaurants and bars and NOT all barricading ourselves in our homes by early evening. There are more of us than there are of them. Empty streets are just an invitation to opportunistic criminals.

And before you all say, that's all well and good, but I need to protect my family, let me just say that I grew up in Belfast in the 1970s and 1980s and my parents sent me to school through riots and barricades, because the one thing you don't do is give in to bullies.