I went through the joplin tornado. Looting was rampant, before the storm was even out of town, the buzzards hit the ground running. We had paid rescue workers caught looting. There was a case where a woman got to her mother's home, found her mother laying dead in her front yard, and people walking past her body into and out of the home, carrying out her property. (seen on CNN, even.) We had guns looted from stores. narcotics from pharmacies. people went from car to car stealing wallets and purses from dead people. Even with a curfew in place, gangs wandered in the blacked out areas picking through houses with flashlights. With personal property and every sort of item strewn all over the countryside for miles, from houses that simply evaporated where they stood, people just put on backpacks and went hiking through the damaged neighborhoods and through the greenspaces between developments.
With all of this vile theft going on, it makes me completely sick that NOBODY took a faceful of buckshot. Not a single looter was shot.
Am I out of line, to wish that these scumbags went in and out of homes with absolute impunity for weeks, some of them even occupied as the gangs went in, and NOBODY was shot?
One of my best friends is a doctor. His office was in the destroyed hospital. his home destroyed. Another friend, the doctor I work for lived a few houses away, and her house, honest to god, was completely sheared off at ground level. Nothing left of it but the floor and the basement. Nothing there at all.
My friends visa was used that very night in tulsa. it was found somehow down wind of his home, and whoever found it, hit the road to splurge with his card. Am I wrong to wish that at least one of these slimebags paid the price for doing the foulest non violent crime possible?
With all of this vile theft going on, it makes me completely sick that NOBODY took a faceful of buckshot. Not a single looter was shot.
Am I out of line, to wish that these scumbags went in and out of homes with absolute impunity for weeks, some of them even occupied as the gangs went in, and NOBODY was shot?
One of my best friends is a doctor. His office was in the destroyed hospital. his home destroyed. Another friend, the doctor I work for lived a few houses away, and her house, honest to god, was completely sheared off at ground level. Nothing left of it but the floor and the basement. Nothing there at all.
My friends visa was used that very night in tulsa. it was found somehow down wind of his home, and whoever found it, hit the road to splurge with his card. Am I wrong to wish that at least one of these slimebags paid the price for doing the foulest non violent crime possible?