Forshadowing an American race war?

That's what one movie review says about the latest in the hoary Planet of the Apes franchise The Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I haven't seen it yet so I can't say that I agree with that view. At least in this case anyhow.  I but I will say that the whiff of such doings is in the air.

What's up with all the "flash mob" violence in American cities this summer?

Says Walter Russell Mead: "...[I]t is not unlikely that future violence in the cities would look more like flash mobs and less like the urban riots of the 1960s.  Those riots targeted Black neighborhoods, Black owned stores and much of the property destroyed in the riots belonged to Blacks; any new trouble would likely be more effective at spreading the pain beyond the inner city.  Link ups in some cases with religious radicals or foreign interests who seek to do us harm cannot be excluded."

Sign of the times: Flash Mob Robberies on the Rise

Teenage Flash Mob Robberies on the Rise (Annie Vaughan, Fox News.com/)

Sign of the times: Flash mob violence

I had never thought that assault weapons were really a necessity. Sure they're fun and appropriate for match shooting, marksmanship or collecting and such, but not for their designed and  intended purpose (i.e., paramilitary-style attack/defense ops). Now I'm not so sure. Okay, America is not Rwanda or some other Turd World shithole of a country where, given their demographics, and their political, ethnic, and religious extremism, and their history of chaos, having an AK-47 and a combat harness full of loaded 30 round magazines makes perfect sense because credible scenarios for the need of such a weapon abound there.

Now I must reconsider. In the past I have thought that a simple sporting-type rifle, pistol, or shotgun would do very nicely to defend my homestead.  But now it seems the thugs have discovered social networking digital technology. And so I have as John Maynard Keynes is reputed to have said: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"