The gang members probably would love to use children as hostages.
Furthermore, what's the big shock, fellow Americans?
How many of you have seen "C.O.P.S" on TV for the last 10 years (I have wanted to ask them to change the program name from "C.O.P.S" to "Glorifying The Decay of America as Entertainment"). An unruly, huge segment of this in the society can and will revert to mob rule and anarchy when and if they get the chance, because by and large, those pockets were lower levels of de-facto anarchy to begin with, with a modicum of police control. This is what can and will happen in the event of a pandemic or suitcase nuke in one of our large cities with a similarly disposed citizenry of these types. I can think of LA, Detroit, Chicago, Houston, Baltimore, Miami, New York City and our own belove capital where this could also happen. The country needs to wake up to the enemy and enemies within.