Street brawl in Ypsilanti last evening

What can you say? It's Ypsilanti and that's how they roll.

Pissed off mob of young men run amok in Ann Arbor parking structure Sunday night

More lumpen antics. Dr. Pinker call your office.

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?"