When they kick at your front door, how you gonna come?
The 1979 song The Guns of Brixton by The Clash asks an age old question - how much agency are you going to fight for?
When they kick at your front door
... How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
... Or on the trigger of your gun?
Suitably dramatic for a punk song, but the question applies in many cases, at many 'scales' in everyone's life.
Asked by: The Clash
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=kyfxGusQPjE
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