Your point? You had one?
Well, I did answer. I'd use what I had and my brain to secure my home and my family first. You don't have to be well off to save up 2 weeks worth of food - it's actually very cheap if you catch sales or off brands. You can get food that lasts for years and will keep you going for a day for sometimes under a dollar a serving. It's not health food, but it will keep you going.
Look at the tsunami victims. They WISH they could be as well off as the 'poor' people in new orleans. America's poor people would be upper middle class - or even rich - by their standards. Yet they didn't loot. They preserved order and worked together. This, frankly, is an embarrassment in front of the world.
But you need to face reality.
The city of new orleans did just what you said they should have done. Be compassionate. Let the looters "take what they need".
Never mind that the looting started even before the hurricane hit, and people were stealing luxury items.
But they did it your way.
And it got out of control.
Instead of being stopped, looters were emboldened to loot more.
They broke into houses and stores and stole guns.
They became armed, roving bands that terrorized the innocent people you claim to be standing up for. Assaulting, raping, and murdering them.
That is the result of what you think should have been done.
Cause and effect. You get more of the behavior your reward. They rewarded lawlessness, and they got more of it.
I don't why you can't see that, or why you still think your hand wringing and sticking your head in the sand is the better approach.
Is it worse to shoot criminals or leave them running free to prey on the innocent? Which do you prefer?
Yes there is Euro leftwing audience that will always sniff at America's "treatment" of her blacks. These people are to the US general population as Yankees are to Southerners.
But otherwise the rest of world is shockingly full of racial realists. Many Euros and Asians view this stuff in stark racial terms.