"There'll be guards", Eddie said. "Maybe a lot of them. What if we're outnumbered?" "It won't be the first… — Stephen King

They were the hands of Gan, the hands of ka, and they knew no mercy

You must never draw until you know how many are against you, or you've satisfied yourself that you can never know, or you've decided it's your day to die.

Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die.