Rioting and looting are things that some subclasses of poor people do from time to time, when they can. "F- The Man, get it when you can." These are people with poor impulse control at best. They are not integrated into their society, they are not breaking something that belongs to them.
If you see middle class people burning their own nice neighborhoods, that's when you should worry.
Another worrisome thing would be a backlash from the middle class, which would tend to fascism. Not likely in the US. Poor people live in ghettos. Any business owner or property owner who has taken the risk of setting up in a ghetto, well, it's not good for them. In the US, the victims of race riots tend to be Asian entrepreneurs.
Polarizing, yes. But the elites live in gated communities and work in glass towers, have armed guards, driving armored cars, far from the fray. They send their children to summer camp in private helicopters.
Anyway, guns are cheap. Kalashnikovs are dirt cheap.
Schools, libraries, hospitals, those are not cheap. So far, at least, the rioters don't seem to be burning down schools, libraries or hospitals. |
