[Tennessee Nana]

The devastation in some parts of my town, Cleveland, is bad...

Low criminals that would steal from these people who lost family mambers and homes should be shot on sight...

[who knows what evil?]

Rubberneckers make me want to vomit...a woman was killed by a weak F-1 tornado here in New Hampshire a few years ago, and I was astounded by the number of people lining the main highway to gawk at the houses that had been destroyed.

[Clint N. Suhks]

Did you have any damage Nana?

[piytar]

Looters should be shot on sight. That’s the way it used to be. The country is too “civilized” for that now. Of course, this type of “civilized” just encourages looters, so it is actually very uncivilized...

[oh8eleven]

Survivors guard against looters
Hey, just like in Japan. Oh, wait ...

"Looters carry off goods from stores along Canal St. in New Orleans, La.,
in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005."

[LostInBayport]

Stories like this make me ill. A large segment of our society has either lost or never had the gift of compassion for another person. It is not like that everywhere. Remember how shocked the American media were to find no looting going on in Japan after those tragedies?

I pray for the Gentrys and all of my fellow Americans devastated by these storms.

[IbJensen]

some typical looters

[Clay Moore]

I can remember dragging out what possessions we still had after our house flooded and seeing the gawkers in stop and go traffic on our little residential street.

I cannot describe the disgust and loathing I felt for those people.

[Tupelo]

After the Xenia Tornado in 1974, I slept in my wrecked house with a shotgun beside me for over a week.
Looters are the scum of the earth and should be shot on sight.

I also find it interesting that after the Japanese earthquake there were no reports of looting. Now after this looting is widespread.

[mylife]

On Thursday, a carload of people pulled down the lane, and Gentry, a Cleveland police officer in the late 1970s, asked what they were doing.

“We’re just looking Looting,” the woman replied.

[Delta 21]

..from Katrina. We need to see more of these.

[traditional1]

Those pesky “Rogue Amish”, no doubt.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

In reading the hisory of the Johnstown flood several looters were shot. The anti-immigrant news papers picked up the story and claimed they were East European, Hungarian and Italian types so it was OK to shoot them.

[Nepeta]

Looters should be shot. Gawkers should be ticketed.

[JoeFromSidney]

Individuals guarding their own wrecked homes is inadequate. This is a job for the neighborhood watch (i.e. local militia). They can take shifts, block roads, etc. No need to wait for the cops. After all, the cops work for us; we don't work for them. If they're spread too thin, we take back the role we delegated to them.