[killjoy]

Our neighborhood armed ourselves (a neighbor of mine lent me his loaded 9mm for a couple of months), and we advertised this fact clearly to anyone who came by. "Looters will be shot" was a commonly seen sign around our parts.. worked pretty well too. Once news reports of a couple of would-be looters getting shot (one in the face) got out, looting virtually stopped.

Yes, I remember it well. :) I was carrying a shotgun around for a number of days. The people I am talking about are not the ones like you and me. They are the sheep that wouldn't get off their collective asses to do anything to make their own situation any better. I am sure you know the people in your neighborhood who I am talking about.

[BurbankKarl]

I racked a XX round in my Mossberg 590 in the wee hours of the Northridge earthquake...my father and I were boarding up our family business when two car loads of "low riders" pulled up (at 6am). They quickly made a uturn and sped off.

Very surreal site that morning in LA, no power, large glows and smoke plumes in the North San Fernando Valley.

Also had a Sig on my hip.