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man, when did free republic open the doors to a bunch of soft-headed feel-good types?

"I'm sure a Wal-Mart full of heavily armed thugs will just drop their guns and obey one or two earnest cops with no hope of backup."

Here's the situation, genius: You keep the 'thugs' from getting the arms at walmart in the first place by clamping down!

Apparently deterrence is a concept beyond you.

I've writing on this too many times today. Apologists like you don't see the consequences of your policies. More people are dying and starving and waiting to be rescued because the liberal government in NO and LA condoned looting. Now resources are being diverted to control the looting that should have been stopped or prevented days ago. As a consequence, people are dying. People are starving. And people are being killed or raped PRECISELY BECAUSE the cops failed to act when the situation was manageable.

Do you understand the common recommendation of taking care of small problems before they turn in to BIG problems?

Sheesh. Go sing kumbaya at DU.

Hey, tough guy. Nobody "condoned" looting. Why don't you tell one of the outnumbered, outgunned cops out there what a pansy he is? Or, better yet, why don't you go help out?