What they amount to encapsulates an ennui, an unwillingness to push back against violence, a sense that the only thing that matters in a world of relative comfort is safety and not in defending the principles that created that world. Talking back is shouted down, shouting back is met with violence, and when there is nothing left for it but to shoot back the victims find themselves disarmed long ago, and the fight becomes an uphill battle of pure survival.
Stay armed, stay educated, stay strong, and recognize as early as possible that the long-subverted engines of state that attempt to control you are not your friend.
The public is too comfy to do a darn thing.