Riot at the Mall of America
30th December 2011
Notice that this sort of thing happens in blue states like Minnesota, not red states like Texas.
Notice also that the rioters were not white people. Deduce from that what you will.
The moral, I suppose, is that civilization faces various threats against which we do not yet have adequate antidotes.
Other than, oh, say, armed citizens who would quell such riots before they properly begin. As sometimes happens in, oh, red states like Texas.
Minnesota has a shall-issue concealed carry law that’s worked well, despite the metro DFL’s prediction of street bloodbaths. But the law does allow establishments to ban concealed carry, and the Mall of America does so. Which is one reason I rarely go there. I figure I can go other places that choose not to make me an easy target.
The problem with leaving such civil disorders for the police to handle is that when police aren’t on hand you have no recourse. It’s difficult for a corpse to get much satisfaction from suing some gang-banger who’s probably on welfare anyway.