I’ve avoided saying anything about New Orleans since the ordeal has actually taken place but I have to voice an opinion here before I have a stroke over it.
It’s quite simple really. Death to all looters. I’ve been through hurricanes, including Andrew--a category five storm. I’ve been without power for weeks, had nothing to eat, the whole nine yards. However, as miserable as that was for me, I had a lot going for me. I still had a structure to live in. Damaged, to be sure, but I still had most of my possessions and a leaky roof over my head.
These poor bastards on the gulf coast have nothing left in many, many instances. Nothing. The sum total of their lives has been wiped fucking clean. They have nowhere to go and no hope for the foreseeable future. And anyone who would take advantage of a situation like this is beyond my contempt.
Looters have already shot a cop in the head in New Orleans. I would have no problem executing these savages with no remorse.
From here:
“A giant new Wal-Mart in New Orleans was looted, and the entire gun collection was taken, The Times-Picayune reported. "There are gangs of armed men in the city moving around the city," said Ebbert, the city's homeland security chief. Also, looters tried to break into Children's Hospital, the governor's office said.”
My response would be to end this problem right now. I’m a martial law kind of guy. One warning shot below the waist before I unload a clip.
I’ve never been big on leniency.
I think they actually instituted martial law yesterday. What they should do, is put the notice out that in twelve hours, all looters will be shot on sight. That way, there's time for the word to get around. I mean, armed robbery is armed robbery. If you need medical/gorcery supplies, contact some of the military personnel in the area and they will undoubtedly escort you into a store while you pick out the items you need. How do I know they'll do this? Because one of the guys I used to work with moved to NO a while back. He wasn't able to get out of the French Quarter (essential hospital staff usually have to stay in town at some point or another during hurricanes) and he's down there setting up a clinic in the Ritz Carlton on Canal Street. They went into a CVS under armed escort and were able to get all the supplies they needed to throw together a MASH-type clinic in the hotel bar. Their escot actually had to hold looters back at gunpoint while they got the stuff they needed. Looters are only making a bad situation worse, and if they gotta die, they gotta die. I'm sure people will whine, but if you don't want to die all you have to do is not steal stuff. Sounds pretty simple to me.
I mourn that this crap never happens around me. I'd be erasing heads from the center of my scope right and left.