We have watched. We have seen: The guy w/o a weapon and ammo is screwed. And probably robbed and murdered as well.
One thing we don't hear about is the status quo out in the bayou communities affected by the hurricane.
Bayou life always had been a bit funky. Smelt sortof like NO smells today, more guns and ammo per person than the city, and plenty of gators, snakes and other critters.
I guess one could use the same liberal justifications and rationalizations for the criminal behavior in NO by appealing to the "You don't know how you would act unless you were in that situation" mentality. Somehow I don't think they would be so easily swayed if that same rational were used to defend David Duke. Then again, we don't hear of people like David Duke having any problems with looters and rapists in their midst.
Of course, one doesn't hear about a lot of things that happen down in the bayou.
Sortof makes you wonder how things might get played out in the end.