Good for them. However I thought the Police went around arresting thos who engaged in armed resistance against the rioters. I seem to remember footage of asian shopkeepers getting dragged away when they tried to defend their business.
There was some of both. The cops did haul away one guy who was acting kinda threatening on his rooftop up around LaBrea and Melrose. That's the one you saw on TV all the time, with the Len-Jac's auto stereo sign in the shot. Most of the time, I think it was the cops figuring that they were saving lives by telling people to walk away from their businesses. In the case of the gun store, though, the fact that it was a gun store (not something anyone wants to see looted) and that it was being defended not by some individual Korean with a revolver, but by ten people, all of whom had firearms training that made the difference