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Thursday, September 29, 2005
Shooting Looters: A Look Back
Today's Times has a long piece that attempts to look at actual evidence of lawlessness in New Orleans following Katrina. As one might expect, the story that emerges is complicated - there was clearly a serious breakdown in law and order, with some violent crime, and many more "crimes of opportunity." On the whole, though, the picture is significantly less Hobbesian than it was at the time. And, given that it appears that few looters ended up hurting actual people, and that reports of utter lawlessness were apparently fueled more by rumor than fact, I wonder if Prof. Kopel of the VC now - as I predicted - regrets calling for looters to be shot on sight.
Posted by Dave Hoffman on September 29, 2005 at 09:07 AM in Current Affairs | Permalink
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I don't know whether he feels badly or not for supporting the wanton and blatantly illegal taking of life. But he is totally against illegally taking away your guns. Illegally take a life? Yes. Illegally take your guns? Hell no!
Posted by: Hillel Levin | Sep 29, 2005 10:35:23 AM
He's also apparently, an advocate of breaking the law. I'm just a lowly student (and not in LA) but I seem to recall from crim law, that generally, you'd only be able to respond with deadly force *to* deadly force, in self-defense... anyway...
Where is he a "Prof"? I looked at his sight and I didn't see an academic institution affiliations. It's a title that's earned, not afforded someone just because they hang at the VC.
Posted by: Dave! | Sep 29, 2005 12:22:00 PM
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