You reminded me of something I did when I was 6 - after both MLK & Robert Kennedy were asassinated, it didn't occur to me that they were killed because of who they were. I just figured that if people like those guys with guards & crowds around them all the time got killed, ordinary folk were doomed. So being a Dark Shadows & vampire junkie, I took all the crosses & Bibles out of my room, took the screen off my window & left it open in the hopes that a vampire would come in & get me so I wouldn't have to worry anymore.
Unfortunately, this was Brownsville in June, so all that came in was a baby possum. My grandfather had to chase it out of a closet and I got in trouble for taking the screen off.