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Only if they were looting MY home or business, otherwise I wouldn't know the circumstances involved. Oh, and by the way, when someone breaks into a grocery store "to feed their babies", there's nothing stopping them from leaving money at the register to PAY for the food.
If I had to take something to eat I would pay the money back to the store later. It would be like borrowing that way, not stealing.
The law doesn't exactly see it that way, but I'd do the same. Hunger makes people do things.
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Too wrongs don't make a right. If someone is simply looting, that person is not physically threatening you.
That was my take on it. When they are stealing from me and what they are stealing could be life or death for me and my family, then I think force is warranted. Otherwise? Nope.
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Why differentiate between looters and white collar crime? Wait to all the fly by night contractors come in to do repairs and use substandard materials and poor craftsmanship. Can they be shot also? I mean stealing my TV vs. conning me out of money. TV I can just replace. But if they put a faulty roof on my house my family could die.
I can't belive the morons that can justify shooting someone in the back for theft...
Why stop there? Surely someone who steals your beer deserves to be tortured don't they?
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Yep, the video I just watched of the LOOTERS who were taking stuff from a cell phone store deserve that stuff right? Sorry, using a disaster to take things you don't feel like paying for or to resell at the expense of the victims? Yes, front,back or sideways looters deserve to be dropped due to lead poisoning on sight. BTW, that "shooting in the back/coward thing" is just from old western movies, try coming to reality.
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Why differentiate between looters and white collar crime? Wait to all the fly by night contractors come in to do repairs and use substandard materials and poor craftsmanship. Can they be shot also? I mean stealing my TV vs. conning me out of money. TV I can just replace. But if they put a faulty roof on my house my family could die.
Big difference, one is it's TAKING something without any permission under the cover of a disaster. The other, well if you can't figure out the difference I'm sorry...
Big difference, one is it's TAKING something without any permission under the cover of a disaster. The other, well if you can't figure out the difference I'm sorry...
I think he's got a valid point, though. That person is taking your money under the pretense of providing a certain service. If they provide a shoddy service, it's not much different than outright theft in terms of how it affects you personally.
I'm not hurt if someone steals my laptop while looting. I am if someone steals my savings to fix my house, then doesn't really fix it.
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Any time I'm out of peanut butter (or even Doritos), I head straight to the store selling the biggest TVs and then I check the shoe stores....the PB is so often right next the latest sneakers in my size.
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Yep, the video I just watched of the LOOTERS who were taking stuff from a cell phone store deserve that stuff right? Sorry, using a disaster to take things you don't feel like paying for or to resell at the expense of the victims? Yes, front,back or sideways looters deserve to be dropped due to lead poisoning on sight. BTW, that "shooting in the back/coward thing" is just from old western movies, try coming to reality.
Big difference, one is it's TAKING something without any permission under the cover of a disaster. The other, well if you can't figure out the difference I'm sorry...
I didn't give then permission to put a faulty roof on my house. They lied about their ability and/or cut back on execution. Neither which I approved.
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