It's such catharsis seeing a person who destroyed your business on the ground begging for his life, as you aim a rifle at him.
Oh yeah, the catharsis, that leaves another person in a trauma. Always the best kind of catharsis. The kind of catharsis, that needs you experiencing an irrational powertrip first - and then, aaaaaaaahhhhh, catharsis..
Oh it is so much better, if you can experience that as a gun owner, and not as a looter, because?
Also I find it endlessly funny, that 'some store owners are using the guns they own' is pent up to be a sort of 'heureka' moment by you.
Isn't that expected in a country like the US with gun ownership levels that high?
Also, and more to the point, those owners may protect their goods and ultimately their livelyhoods, but they are doing that, by threatening to end lives, while none of the looters or protesters is. (People still havent died at the hands of protesters, while quite a few have been offed by 'counterforces' (police, ...) as of now. So there is still a misbalance.
What you'd do in a developed country, is to do more crowd control where looting is going on, and then helping those people that were looted and not insured, to get up and running again, through community grants or donations (different businesses pooling money).
Of course only, if you didnt want to peg the public opinion against the protests and are doing jack sh*t to limit looting right now, so public sentiment turns.
In the US police doesnt even seem to have the right equipment for the job (What exactly are those puny arm shields for? Riot shields look different.), seems to be afraid to move against crowds coordinately without batons in hand, and leaves store owners at their own peril.
No?
You see none of the bigger brands starting to hire private contractors to pull weapons in front of their stores for a reason. They all cut losses, and move on. For them its more economical to do that. (Public image.)
Why is it always the little guy acting out of an irrational fear, that has to be spokesmodel for 'whats ideal' in the NRAs interests? Never the big corporations, who should actually know. Some day I'll find out..