Immortal images of the Very Fine People

This photo seems destined to become a classic, but it also exemplifies the "gibbering barbarian" (as I put it here) in action.  The moment I first saw it, it made me think of a primitive ape-creature engaged in the kind of shrieking intimidation display typical of enraged chimpanzees, at two full-fledged humans who -- luckily for their assailant -- have mastered the stoic self-restraint of civilization.

Then of course there's this one:

.....which, as many have pointed out, looks exactly like a zombie attack in a horror movie.  Well, they may be mindless automatons driven by an all-consuming urge to destroy people who have brains, but they don't have the excuse of being under the control of a virus.  Yet.

And finally:

Unlike some liberals, I have no particular hostility toward mass gun ownership in general.  But this is a threat, not a protest.  It has the feel of a barbarian horde celebrating their overthrow of a civilized city.

But they celebrate too soon.  The cities have not fallen, and will not.