There have been a numerous comments to the same effect by Freepers over the last few days. I may be wrong about this, and the various outbreaks may have been imperfectly reported here in Britain: but in the sporadic riots in the U.S. which have occurred in my (fairly long) lifetime, I don't recall the Second Amendment being widely applied in practice. Shooting of rioters by police or the National Guard? Certainly. But shooting of rioters by ordinary citizens? If that's happened on a widespread scale, that news certainly hasn't crossed the Atlantic.
Yes, that’s an interesting question. I think that if we were to research it, we would find that some areas are less prone to rioting and violence than others, and figure out what factors make it that way. I think the answer is that it just doesn’t happen in some areas where there would be citizen resistance.
The 2nd Amendment was widely applied and it protected both life and property.
Great pictures of armed Koreans defending their lives, their property, their liberty and their sacred honor.
The Second Amendment has been widely applied in rural parts of the deep South in the aftermaths of hurricanes. It has also been applied in other parts of the US following other sorts of natural disasters. Generally, few shots are fired. The sight of rednecks and hillbillies with guns is usually enough to persuade potential looters to go elsewhere. The most famous case of 2A application, I believe, was the response of the LA Korean community to the "Rodney King Riots". Shots were fired, and a neighborhood was protected.
Beyond that, riots tend to occur in places where folks don't have much use for the Second Amendment in the first place.