In neighborhoods with high concentrations of Taiwanese, residents have taken to carrying clubs with which to protect themselves and their families from possible attack. Some residents have pooled their funds to hire soldiers or armed local gangsters as bodyguards. Huang Hsueh-hsien, who operates an aqua-culture business, has gone so far as to form his own security force.
許多台商聚集的社區居民掄起棍棒，隨時準備為保命保家與暴民正面衝突；有人則索性集資雇請軍隊或是地方角頭荷槍實彈守衛，經營養殖業的黃學賢甚至自組自衛隊。