2. Yes, that's true. "Shopping" for jewelry, however is also going on.
...as is breaking into banks and ATMs and raiding hospitals for drugs.
The term "looter" has been used to describe people exhibiting a wide range of behavior. Not all looters are doing something that I'd consider bad, but some definitely are.
4. the looters I saw on news had tvs, pants, dvds, other electronics
while certainly some people grabbed necessities--most of those probably went quickly. The looters are mostly young healthy looking people who could be organizing, helping, and WALKING OUT of New Orleans. Instead they are contributing to the breakdown of their own society.
And let me remind everyone: these thugs in no way represent the majority of poor people who live in NO. The majority of decent citizens are not on tv because they aren't carrying a stolen gun or tv down the street.
Although I guess one could argue that AK47s might be a legitimate thing to scavage. There is certainly a criminal element who always takes advantage of chaos and their are other groups of people just struggling to survive.
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