Yep, interlocking crises can really multiply the effects. Imagine an Ebola outbreak in a city undergoing riots. Nobody sane will leave their house, and the economy will crash. Soon enough the engineers won’t report for duty at the power plants if it’s risky going back and forth, or if they are not paid (in meaningful money with purchasing power) due to the economic crash.
1. The traditional answer to interlocking crises has been interlocking fields of fire.
2. Rioters are in the open.
3. Residents are in their buildings.
4. Buildings provide both concealment and cover compared to rioters in the open.
5. Suppression of violent and/or destructive behavior is most effectively and most economically done by the endangered citizen.
6. The armed citizen by definition is on the scene in a timely manner - which no cop can be expected to equal.
7. An armed citizen, with the cover/concealment of a building, will deliver far more accurate fire than can be expected of an officer.