For what it's worth, the
“guillotine” can be clearly seen, in a picture accompanying
the article, to be a nonfunctional prop. It's quite obvious in this picture, but I would certainly not assume that it would be obvious to a frightened occupant of a home, seeing an obviously-violent mob carrying it toward his home.
These cretins are very fortunately that some of the homeowners didn't start shooting at them. These cretins are fortunate, the rest of the community unfortunate. The community would be much safer,and much better off, if some of these cretins were dead, and those left alive given a stronger sense of likely adverse consequences for such behavior.
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