The only possible generalization regardings the reaction.
No one who hasn't been in a chaotic, violent situation is capable of judging anyone who has.
Anyone who has been in a chaotic, violent situation doesn't judge anyone else who has.
The people who second-guess folks who have been there are hypocrites, applying hindsight and thought to situations where limited information and overwhelming emotions were operating.
They are assholes. Pure, simple.
In the meantime, in the US 118 people on an average die in auto accidents, 47 of them alcohol related. Where's the outrage?
Arf