[HIDEK6]

Your suggestion requires that samaritans take their property into New Orleans and help rescue and evacuate the unfortunate.

How do you propose to protect the rescuers from the looters, now that they have armed themselves?

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

So. you would do nothing at present to protect the trapped and helpless victims from the looters?

It is simple, looters are not unlike other scavengers, they do not relish putting their arses in jeopardy. Confront evil with overwhelming firepower, kill the looters wherever and whenever.