I'm lucky, in that I live " out in the sticks " (roughly 90 miles from Chicago, Rockford, and Peoria), so I don't see myself getting caught "in the middle", but if circumstances were to put me in the wrong place at the wrong time, I'd be willing to bet that my strategy would be to 1) get to cover, 2) get out of the effected area, and 3) go WELL around the disturbance to get home. While no one can guarranty they won't get caught up in the middle of an uprising of one kind or another, I like to think that my observations of what is going on around me would give me a LITTLE warning that it's time to get out of Dodge. As far as EDC for this type of situation goes... well, generally, firearms as weapons are best left to other forums.

Troy