Such emotional people must be brought under the control of more rational leadership quickly or will need to be weeded out.
A hot head in your midst is as deadly as a sniper on a roof.
Vital infrastructure must be preserved.
Large transformers are not even manufactured in the US anymore. The lead time on a large transformer is about a year. And there are only two or three places in the US that rebuild them.
If some idiot shoots one after the SHTF that area would be out of power indefinitely.
In my brigade such an act would be a death sentence because that man would be responsible for many deaths.
And no doubt it will also be a hanging offense from the state / national government on down.
But what power will they have while stores and fuel-dry 18-wheelers are looted to the ground?
What power will your militia have? Compared to millions in the thrall of panic/anger/fear?