  It's no coincidence, that when the country was safe and sane, it was local. People were raised and families lived for generations in a community. Families knew each other - for better or worse, they knew which families and which people had problems, which were violent. Deep history created a deep understanding of neighbors. If there were dangerous characters living in town, people knew about them. They knew who could help when in need. They knew who to avoid. With the forced immigration that our governments have created, few people know those around them anymore. A mistrust of strangers was a protective measure. Unfortunately for years people have been taught that to mistrust strangers is 'xenophobic' (I don't know where this word originated) And that 'xenophobia' was an ignorant backwards trait. However, xenophobia could have prevented just this type of event because 'xenophobic ' people are on guard when near strangers. The deep rooted community, based on mutual assistance and common culture, has largely been destroyed and replaced with a false community of business and government and run by commerce and taxes. The loss of the old-style communities creates more exposure to violence from strangers as well as less likelyhood that people will assist each other when in need.  These must have been the days when undesirables were actually run out of town. Even people that didn't quite see eye to eye were able to set aside their differences to unite against a common threat and drive it away or in some cases exterminate that threat. Seems that people are afraid to so much as look cross-eyed at their neighbor these days for fear of being sued or ostracized, so talking about the weirdo (the threat) that just moved in a few blocks over is out of the question.    I think the issue here is the far-away courts that go out of their way to enforce the civil rights of all except the decent, common white man and his family. Should that system break down somehow, I think that those that still have an iota of common sense would start to regroup along the lines of seriously and effectively protecting their communities.