One answer is to always be armed-lesson learned.

A second answer is don't be alone and back up those you're with to the point of armed confrontation, or forget it. Even so much as an neighborhood watch could've stopped this this exercise in horrifically misplaced hatred before it became tragic.

A third answer is to have a frank and open discussion across the race lines. One over-eager cop wannabe and one street youth have caused a New Madrid sized racial fault line to really go active and all the race pimps and all our enemies are exploiting that tragedy to try and spark a race war.