Things have deteriorated badly in the People's Republic of Evanston, IL. Being neighborly apparently hasn't been mandated yet by the PC police, so one victim of uncharitable behavior took matters into his own hands. Sun Times:

A man walking in the North Shore suburb slipped on the ice and fell. A group of people huddled together across the street laughed at his misfortune.

Then the man pulled a gun -- and started shooting.

"He obviously got ticked off,'' said Evanston Police Commander Tom Guenther.

The man fired six shots in all as the group of friends fled, but one of them was struck in the ankle, Guenther said. That 20-year-old victim was treated and released from a local hospital early Saturday morning.

The friends told police they did not know the gunman.

Perhaps this will have an unintended consequence--encouraging passers-by to lend a hand. Who knows? Maybe eventually being a Good Samaritan might become so commonplace it won't ever be enforced again at the barrel of a gun. They'll probably just try to pass a law though--no laughing in public or something.