What if you run out of food or water? Do you stay at home and wait? If you go out to get such and there are thugs and looters accost you and steal your stuff do you go back home get more cash and try again?
Exactly, how do you go to a store? How do you go to relatives or friends houses that dont have guns in order to arm or help them? This is another “shotgun” approach to a small poblem. Arrest and prosecute fully looters, don’t punish and disarm law abiding citizens who desire to protect themselves their friends and relatives and their property. Do these clowns even think through the crap they write? If they had crap like this on the books 150 years ago we would be speaking Comanche or Apache not English...
I assume you have never lived in an area threatened by hurricanes before. You are given plenty of notice to prepare. You clean your yard of ‘loose things’ and you board up your house.
You go to the store early and buy batteries and candles, jugs of water and all manner of non perishable foods to last a week or two. The stores run out of supplies.
You fill your bath-tubs with water for flushing and you fill pots and pans with additional water for washing. You have a butane stove handy for needed cooking.
BECAUSE during and after the hurricane there are NO stores open, there are NO gasoline stations open for many days, the power is out and people stay in their homes.
In all my years I have never seen a looter in south Texas hurricanes. Katrina was a sad example for our country. Mayor Nagin did not use school buses to carry out the poor people and obviously the city had many who were desperate after-wards.
I hesitate to say it, but it is true that that city had a large population of uneducated people who did little to help themselves beforehand. But, they had guns for the looting after-wards.
In most cities if there is not bad flooding you can travel to a hospital or shelter for help and there will be police out and about.
I could write a book on the horrors of evacuation but this is already too long. All I can say is board up and evacuate early, and yes I would take my gun along with me no matter what they say.