Every provocation to nonviolence, from violence, has to be responded to afresh. This is because Mahatma Gandhi has shown us the principle, not laid down a code. 

In Ep 7 of Ahimsa Conversations, Gopal Gandhi, whose father was Mahatma Gandhi’s youngest son, describes how his three uncles reacted very differently to the assassination of Gandhi and what their responses teach us about both the impulse for violence and nonviolence.