Looting may be one of the lowest forms of human activity around, but that's because people are offended by the profit motive (or something for nothing) attitude of the opportunists in the crowd at the time of extreme human distress. But I'm sure glad you're not the police chief there, Guest LarryK, because shooting looters would be an immoral indefensible act that would only contribute to the problems.

I saw a helluva lot of diapers being carried out of those stores by women. A real high-ticket profitable item, eh? Yeah, Larry, go shoot those women who need diapers and baby food and sterile materials for their small children. You go teach them a lesson. The shitheads who ransacked the beer coolers won't be able to get it cool, once they've had their ill-advised and unsatisfactory drunk they'll be in the way until maybe some of those mothers put them to work. You shoot them they're not even there for that kind of useful enterprise.

SRS