Every town, no... every neighborhood should have a local militia/natural disaster and emergency response reserves team that, until "professional" .gov-funded "help" arrives, can step in and bring order + a semblance of safety/stability to local families caught in a shitstorm.
Be nice if a group caught the fuckhead and soaked him in diesel then broadcast his burning alive on video on social media. Let it be known you attack innocents, you'll die in agony completely humiliated.
A group in Michoacan played with this idea. Formed Mexico's largest(by far) self-defense group/militia, called the "autodefensas de Michoacan".
Wasn't about the drugs. Fuck the drugs, if they could do their drug business amongst themselves without affecting normal people I doubt most would care. Unfortunately a lot of these meth cooks in tierra caliente("hot land" in Michoacan) are/were heavily into the product themselves, and that shit makes you a soulless paranoid psychopath after a few days. They were extorting everyone, kidnapping ranch owners and avocado farmers, etc for ransom. People got fed up. Dr Mireles(the leader/founder of the group, got kidnapped like 5x or something insane before finally getting fed up and buying a bunch of illegal rifles and putting the group together/recruiting like-minded friends). They were wildly successful and quickly swept thru the entire state, all but scattering the Knights Templar Cartel to send them hiding in the hills.
But can't have people thinking they can do a better job at providing security/safety to themselves than .gov can, or having the possibility of overthrowing the corrupt institution. The Mexican gov't came down on them with an iron fist, forcing them to become part of the .gov-controlled(and therefore corrupt) Fuerzas Rurales. Many, including Dr Mireles himself, refused and were persecuted more harshly than any of the actual criminals(remind anyone else of Jan6? Divide + conquer)... Mireles was nearly tortured to death by the police, then rotted in prison for many years with no medical care whatsoever. He was a broken man after release by all accounts...
A strong bright glimmer of hope, smashed to pieces by .gov.. it was a helluva story.