Yeah, people are going crazy these days. If things drop off the ledge, the mall or the store is the last place I'd be going. It's definitely gotten worse. After the 2004 hurricanes in Florida people weren't acting like that. There was still a degree of being civilized. I think there is more desperation in people now.
One note. During the 2004 thing one of the first things they did in my county was to declare emergency laws in effect which said there was a curfew and no guns in public period. All permits were revoked until further notice.