Looters have ransacked several businesses in Buffalo New York in the aftermath of a major blizzard. New York Post. Police were busy with search and rescue operations after a major storm dropped 40 inches of snow on the city, leaving at least 27 people dead. Looters took advantage of the police being busy to make away with goods while also damaging stores. Police have started to make arrests for looting but are still hampered by poor weather conditions. Buffalo's Mayor, Byron Brown, said that the looters were not taking supplies needed in the aftermath of the storm, but stealing things they wanted instead.
Looting of stores in Buffalo and New York at the same time as the extreme cold and frost pic.twitter.com/jczYBJgjNq
— The last word (@Thelast05015969) December 26, 2022
🚨#BREAKING: Looting breaks out after a major blizzard hits
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Watch as video shows dozens of people looting stores and shops after a major blizzard hit parts of Buffalo causing people to be stranded with no supplies people can be seen walking out with items pic.twitter.com/tE0D9ssSFO
My Comment:
This is a fairly major news story that most news outlets aren't covering for pretty obvious reasons. The mainstream media almost always takes the sides of looters and criminals as long as they are perceived to be Democratic voters. Since Buffalo is a Democratic Stronghold the media will not criticize these people.
It's very clear to me that these people weren't taking supplies they needed because of the storm. They were instead just taking things they wanted and didn't want to pay for. There is nothing you need in a survival situation in a cell phone store, for example. Other stores were ransacked and destroyed, which is not something you need to do if you are just trying to survive a storm.
It's very clear that these people were taking advantage of the disaster to their own ends. To them, this wasn't a major winter storm where dozens of people died nationally, it was a chance to get stuff they wanted and didn't want to pay for.
The police could do little to prevent this as they were unable to do much of anything. Most of them were either out trying to rescue people trapped in the snow or were trapped in the snow themselves. From what I understand there was 40 inches of snow and high winds blowing that snow around, which means that a lot of roadways were blocked. You could still walk through the snow and that is how these looters were able to steal so much.
A few people on Twitter were trying to defend the looters but I am thankful that nobody seemed to be buying it. This wasn't people taking food and other resources, it was looting, plain and simple. And the people trying to defend it looked utterly ridiculous. Sometime people's actions are so over the top that even people on Twitter have a hard time defending it.
I do think that this is a strong argument for gun rights. We have seen again and again that the police aren't always up to the job. In this case the police were unable to do so because of the weather and more pressing concerns, like rescuing trapped people. But we have also seen in 2020 that sometimes the police are either unwilling or ordered to not help people when looting and rioting is going on.
When it comes down to it your safety comes down to you and it's very possible that this kind of thing will get more common. This time it was targeting businesses but what happens next time when it's people's homes getting targeted. Keep in mind too, that these people were just out for a good time, what happens when people are truly desperate? You will need a gun to defend yourself because you don't want to think about what will happen if you don't have one.
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