Quote: Wednesday said: If they get in the way of relief efforts, arrest 'em, wound 'em if you must, but don't kill them.
As was said in another thread (I can't be arsed to dig it up right now), it's very difficult to shoot someone just to wound them, and military and law enforcement are trained only to draw a gun if they are prepared to kill someone.
And you can't really taser someone nonlethally if they're knee-deep in water, can you?
The only way to stop the looters without killing them would be to club them down with something. And since the cops and National Guard and everyone else are busy trying to save people, I guess I can understand why they're letting the looters slide for the time being.
It's still shitty, though, and I'm sure enough of those looters are paying their dues when they run into unstable buildings or fallen electrical lines - or tenacious property owners. But as for the bastards preying on innocent people, shoot on sight doesn't seem like that bad of a policy.
