Once upon a time, in 1844, a certain New York Irish Archbishop ("Dagger" John Hughes) threatened the Protestant Mayor of New York City, declaring that if the Prots dared to touch a single Catholic Church, he would turn New York City into a second Moscow (i.e., Napoleon burned Moscow to the ground in 1812; that memory would have been fresh in 1844), and organized and gathered Irish Catholic militia to guard the city's churches.
Where oh where have all the fighters gone?
Hiding under their beds, with masks on, hoping the bad guys go somewhere else, I suppose.