Not sure if they would commit suicide, but they would certainly beg.
One thing to take for granted: Three days after there was no milk (or possibly anything else) on the store shelves, it’s every man for himself.
A man (and some women, no doubt) can tolerate being hungry and cold.
But to watch his kids do that?...
So I don’t think looter boy from NO with his Heinekins is that much of a problem, for one, he’s basoically an opportunistic coward.
But a man watching his starving or sick kids, that’s another thing entirely.
Oh, it’ll be mighty dangerous for a spell, that’s for sure. Our urban ghettoes might totally implode, thus the demand/need for martial law.
But in the suburbs, black markets will spring up like mushrooms to fill the need as a stopgap, until market resupply chains are reestablished. That could last for days to months.