Shoot looters on sight

Trade said:
I can get on board with this as long as we can also summarily execute all the looters on Wall Street and the Corporate boardrooms too.
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I'd much rather we go after the real crooks - Clintons/Obama/Bernie and all the others who have made millions selling our government. (I don't want them shot, just put in jail.) As for looters, well, that's gonna happen, and people of all races do it. Let the local police deal with it as best they can. Not a fan of shooting them on sight. Due process and all that.
 

Hoot N Annie said:
I'd much rather we go after the real crooks - Clintons/Obama/Bernie and all the others who have made millions selling our government. (I don't want them shot, just put in jail.) As for looters, well, that's gonna happen, and people of all races do it. let the local police deal with it as best they can.
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The REAL Crooks have all been elected.... but don't worry Muller will get the job of going after them done...
 
Now Here' s some looting that makes sense!

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/1...ealing-power-pole-as-police-turn-up-heat.html

Two men were arrested Wednesday after an officer found a utility pole strapped to the top of a vehicle in Jacksonville, days after Hurricane Irma spawned severe flooding in the city, as cops across the Sunshine State work overtime to nab thieves impeding recovery efforts.
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Like the fella that owns this donkey......I think if the two fellas pictured above are going to try and make a living from looting they're going to need a bigger mode of transportation.
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And now....St. Louis is holding its breath that a bunch of protestors won't start rioting. It seems that a cop shot a heroin dealer that tried to run over him and his partner. I guess it doesn't dawn on some people that they wouldn't have problems with the police if they obeyed the laws.

https://apnews.com/82041d6fe9694ff8...braces-for-more-protests-over-cop's-acquittal

St louis, like so many of our cities, is losing population as the honest working people are moving further and further away....that city has gone from 750,000 in the 1960's, to just over 300,000 today. I used to go over there 3 or 4 times a year when I was working...to help out on big installs, etc., but now, I would hate to have a flat tire anywhere near the core city...I would want to call the cops to stand by while I changed the tire, before I would even step out of the car.
 
Hoot N Annie said:
I'd much rather we go after the real crooks - Clintons/Obama/Bernie and all the others who have made millions selling our government. (I don't want them shot, just put in jail.) As for looters, well, that's gonna happen, and people of all races do it. Let the local police deal with it as best they can. Not a fan of shooting them on sight. Due process and all that.
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Have some Merlot Terry...:):cheers1:Then it doesn't matter who's a crook! LOL
 
Has anyone here seen Les Miserables? Jean Valjean was in prison for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his starving family. The main point of the story is the struggle between the desperate poor and the conservative lawmakers who insist on blind obedience to the law, no matter what the circumstances.

The proponents of a death sentence for looting would fit right into that story.
 
Sunny said:
Has anyone here seen Les Miserables? Jean Valjean was in prison for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his starving family. The main point of the story is the struggle between the desperate poor and the conservative lawmakers who insist on blind obedience to the law, no matter what the circumstances.

The proponents of a death sentence for looting would fit right into that story.
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I saw Les Miserables. I agree with your assessment.
 
Sunny said:
Has anyone here seen Les Miserables? Jean Valjean was in prison for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his starving family. The main point of the story is the struggle between the desperate poor and the conservative lawmakers who insist on blind obedience to the law, no matter what the circumstances.

The proponents of a death sentence for looting would fit right into that story.
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Do you suppose those looters in the shoe store were going to go home and fry up a big ol' batch of Nikes for the family dinner? Or do you bake them? I dunno. I'm not in favor of shooting them on site, but I also am not in favor of giving them a free pass on the looting because "times are hard".
 
Hoot N Annie said:
Do you suppose those looters in the shoe store were going to go home and fry up a big ol' batch of Nikes for the family dinner? Or do you bake them? I dunno. I'm not in favor of shooting them on site, but I also am not in favor of giving them a free pass on the looting because "times are hard".
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How about the two stealing the telephone pole... Do you think they ate that or sat on it?
 
Not all of these looters are in dire straights. I remember that some arrested during Katrina were correction officers and there were a couple of police.

Predatory opportunism knows no class.
 
People who steal should be arrested. They committed a crime. Suggesting that they get a death sentence is barbaric. Obviously, there are crimes, and then there are crimes. Each one has to be evaluated individually, and dealt with appropriately.

Stealing Nikes has to be considered a crime. Stealing telephone poles? Well, I don't know what the word is for that. But stealing food if you are in the middle of a natural disaster and you have a hungry family does begin to sound like Les Miz.
 
Sunny said:
People who steal should be arrested. They committed a crime. Suggesting that they get a death sentence is barbaric. Obviously, there are crimes, and then there are crimes. Each one has to be evaluated individually, and dealt with appropriately.

Stealing Nikes has to be considered a crime. Stealing telephone poles? Well, I don't know what the word is for that. But stealing food if you are in the middle of a natural disaster and you have a hungry family does begin to sound like Les Miz.
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In Florida... if that telephone pole is worth more than $300 it's GRAND Larceny..
 
Hoot N Annie said:
Do you suppose those looters in the shoe store were going to go home and fry up a big ol' batch of Nikes for the family dinner? Or do you bake them? I dunno. I'm not in favor of shooting them on site, but I also am not in favor of giving them a free pass on the looting because "times are hard".
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I agree. Besides which, times are probably hard for the store owner, too.
 
Butterfly said:
And I bet it's worth a whole lot more than that. I think looting (not talking about Jean Valjean's loaf of bread) is despicable. It takes advantage of the misfortune of others.
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For sure! Can you imagine some homeowner in Texas or Florida returning home for the first time in days, only to find some scumbag going through the debris, looking for something of value? That kind of low life deserves to find out what the business end of a shotgun feels like.
 
Don, I agreed with you until you got to the "business end of a shotgun" part. That's what the police and the judicial system are for, not some lunatic running around trying to act out some scenario from the old days of the "Wild West." Vigilante justice is never a good idea. Once we start relying on that, civilization goes out the window.

Everybody has a cell phone. You see looters? Call the police!
 
Don M. said:
For sure! Can you imagine some homeowner in Texas or Florida returning home for the first time in days, only to find some scumbag going through the debris, looking for something of value? That kind of low life deserves to find out what the business end of a shotgun feels like.
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Again... I know it feels good to talk that way Don... BUT in reality theft is not punishable by death.
 
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