ok, now you have to share your story.
I was at Great Adventures in New Jersey with some friends that day when the announcement was made "There is a blackout in NYC." We immediately left for NY. On the radio, the news came that some neighborhoods had looting, while some went to full blown rioting. My friends, who lived in Crown Heights, in Brooklyn, thought the worst as there had always been simmering violence there. What was worse was that their only child was with a babysitter in the apartment, and as the mother was nursing, there was not an infinite supply of milk.
I told them in the car that we would proceed to Queens where I lived, to pick up the requisite "supplies'. I went into my apartment when I arrived, took the 45 and the Mini 14. We then departed to Brooklyn. We avoided the Interboro Parkway from Kew Gardens, because it exited in East NY, a place that UPS was said, made no deliveries. We came in on other, less risky streets and I finally got into Crown Heights. Utica Avenue was burning, looters were everywhere, and there was sporadic gunfire. I remarked that I would not brake for rioters and quickly got beyond Utica to Schenectady and Montgomery. I pulled the car up on the sidewalk in front of the building. We exited the vehicle.
A mob spotted us and came toward us, but they were still almost 100 yards away. A few of them had guns; they appeared to be 38s and 25s. I took the Mini up, with both clips and pointedit at them. Their answer was that we were few and they were many. I shouted that I would fire on them if they came much closer, and that their guns did not have the range. I also stated that before we would go down, many of them would be on their way to Perdition. The mob then changed direction. I gave my friends the option of leaving with me, but they chose to stay. Defense of the building was being organized and some residents had both long and short arms.
I tnen took my leave, hitting the road at warp speed. I had not fired a single shot. Mobs are usually made up of vicious cowards