America is in dire distress and nobody is lifting a finger, except to strike the keyboard.
I keep thinking we will see a Henry Bowman incident -- SWAT team comes to the door, and minutes later, there's a dead SWAT team and the intended victim has gone out the back.
Yeah, easier to do in a novel than in real life, but some citizens actually know what they're doing, and a lot of cops sure don't.
It's the new talking. Talking is a good thing. Even the Founders thought so. Believe it or not, free speech is real power. In fully implemented police states, bad things happen AND you can't talk about it. Talking brings repercussions to evildoers. Not as fast as weaponized talking, but it has the benefit of giving us a chance to pretend we are still civilized.