Actually, rioters and looters should be shot by those ordinary citizens whose lives, persons or property they actively threaten.
The government will not rescue you. The politicians are too afraid of losing votes to even try to do so. Even if they wanted to charge to the rescue they will be minutes away while someone with a Molotov cocktail or rock to throw, club, or a gun is right there being aggressive.
Only when We The People show this level of intolerance for rioters and looters engaged in their crimes will rioting and looting stop.
True, but look what happens when you legally protect persons and property, YOU are prosecuted, not the lawbreakers. This country is in deep trouble.