[Moonman62]

Looters would cruise the ruins of neighborhoods and when they saw someone sitting on the remains of their home with a shotgun.....they did not stop.

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I don’t recall any significant looting after Andrew. If anything the usual backdrop of Miami crime went down. Maybe it was because they didn’t know which house was armed. I do remember seeing signs saying looters would be shot.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I do not recall that it was reported that looting was on a large scale. But I do recall reading some stories people sitting with weapons on their front porches, if they still had them, and detering wanna be looters.

[Blue Jays]

"...I don’t recall any significant looting after Andrew. If anything the usual backdrop of Miami crime went down. Maybe it was because they didn’t know which house was armed. I do remember seeing signs saying looters would be shot..."

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The craziness is that in some states the police would promptly arrest someone sitting on his or her own damaged property with a shotgun in his or her lap.