I'm going to write another piece in defense of some small town values and how I've also seen people look out for each other in ways not expressed in this song at all. I wholeheartedly disagree that the message of this song is to look out for each other. It is a message of a vigilante justice fantasy being projected onto what they think small town folks are like today. It is both ignorant of small town values and disrespectful to the violent and racist history that most small towns have moved past. Well maybe not 100% the racism, but the lynchings. When crimes happens in small towns, people call the police. They don't gather the "good ol' boys" or whoever they are with their granddad's guns. The last time that was a thing was the era of the racist lynchings that tool place in front of the courthouse in the video.