First of all, I humbly suggest to posters that they ease up on them hammers, as while they are speaking from the heart, less than sympathetic government employees are likely recording what they say in an effort to justify their own and future misbehavior.
That being said, I would suggest that America is a much tougher nut to crack than old, tired Europe. They needed 1500 years of princely wars to break their spirit, but America is not weighted down with that baggage, nor as tolerant of such antics, despite the best efforts of those scoundrels in our country who would want us to emulate Europe’s neuroses.
As an example, I will cite the Rodney King riots. At first, the rioters were able to enter the Korean-American neighborhood and cause great chaos and anguish.
However, the Korean-Americans, having much more deeply integrated into the American way of doing things, i.e. being armed to the teeth, while retaining their Korean cultural tradition of vicious revenge when provoked, presented the rioters, by the second day, an armed camp that invasion of which would have proven suicidal.
And shortly thereafter, in the Korean tradition, a plane load of shaved head, heavily tattooed Korean killers arrived at LAX to provide punishment to those individuals who had trespassed and violated the Korean community.
Needless to say, such vengeance was kept out of the papers, and the LAPD had other, far more pressing things to do than protect rioters and criminals from their just desserts.
And, to their credit, the leaders of the Korean community were savvy enough to assure the civilian government that the Korean community was more than willing to let the silly blatherers in government try to reach all the consensus and “healing” that they wanted to.
At the same time the imported killers were out performing their contracted assignments of extreme and personal violence against rioters.
Which brings us up to current events, such as unruly mobs of racist young men, engaged in “wildings” at public events. And, in truth, for a time they have gotten away with it. And the authorities have, as yet, just wrung their hands and deplored the events, and looked at how society “must have wronged” such brigands to “drive” them to the point of their little racist rampages.
The public are not so forgiving, nor generous. This means that likely, in the near future, such a mob will attempt another “loot ‘n’ pillage”, but where there are armed citizens about, who will do a “Magnificent Seven” on the barbarians, sending a healthy handful to “Hell across lots.”