"It figures. It all happened too sudden. People gotta talk themselves into law and order before they do anything about it; maybe because, down deep, they don't care. They just don't care." -- Martin Howe (Lon Chaney, Jr.) in 1952's HIGH NOON. (Link to vid clip here: youtube.com/watch?v=LYr… )

By the way, I highly recommend y'all re-watch that classic western. It's the perfect analog to our current predicament: a pardoned bad guy and his gang return to terrorize a frontier town, and the hapless townsfolk offer nothing but excuses to the sheriff who needs their help to form a posse. The depiction of cowardice and rationalization is spot-on.