Looters should always be shot stone cold dead.
People scoff and utter inanities about the inadequacy of deterrent measures, but their words gain some traction only because what measures have to-date been enacted as “deterrent” are, themselves, more of a mockery of the concept than anything else.
You enact deterrent measures that give people loose bowels just hearing them announced by the local newscaster — I guaran-damn-TEE you’ll have ghostly quiet on the streets.
That notion is only mocked because it hasn’t been tried.
People who go out looting aren’t doing it in defiance of death or they wouldn’t be doing it. There ain’t a pair of Air Jordans nor any TV on earth worth being dead over.
“People who go out looting aren’t doing it in defiance of death or they wouldn’t be doing it. There ain’t a pair of Air Jordans nor any TV on earth worth being dead over.”
Those looters in NOLA weren’t stealing essentials, either. They were risking “being dead”. They can’t help themselves from stealing; it’s what they do. (Maybe a GEICO commercial?)