It’s a damn shame nobody ever invented insurance.
That said, arson is a serious problem, in my opinion on a whole different level from looting. Looting is bad, and looters should be arrested. People committing arson should be tackled by (other?) protesters and handed over.
I have a feeling it would have the opposite effect and basically start an all-out war here in the city. Arrest them; prosecute them; do what you can, but as soon as you start killing them, I see things getting far worse before they get better.
And you would kill people to protect that?
There was one of the “organizers” on TV saying EXACTLY “They’ve been looting us for years; it’s time we loot them!”
I’m sorry, I don’t see this as “drawing attention to their plight”; it was direct criminal behavior to enrich themselves.
Tell me when you’d do anything to stop me.
I pull up to your house in a van with 3 cronies. We run up to your porch, cut the
locks on your family bicycles and load them in the van.
Not yet? Okay, we jimmy your garage, hot wire your car, and one of the henchman drives it away.
Not yet? The 3 of us left begin to break our way into your house where your wife and children are.
Need I go on?
Since the supposed cause of this whole night of looting was a jumbled tale of a police shooting, how do you suppose the wholesale shooting of those looters on live TV would resonate? What would be the results?
I can tell certain people get a little shiver of glee at the idea of miscreants getting shot, but as a practical matter, it has its drawbacks.
Do anything, or do anything?
One of these two scenarios is true. Take your pick.
A) At step 1, I’d call the police. At step 2 I’d take my family out the back door and run.
B) At step 1 I’d shoot you all in rapid succession with my handy chaingun, which I’d employ as you started to approach the porch. Then I’d come out and finish you each off with my shotgun, first with a shotgun blast to each of your crotches, followed by a shot to each of your foreheads. Then I’d take your keys, set your car rolling down the street, and shoot it with my RPG. Then I’d call the police and report a successful home defense.
Reasonable reactions all.
Show me where this occurred in the incident in question.
Looter lives matter?
This makes a lot of sense to me. A bunch of outsiders wants to stir up trouble in Englewood. The people who actually live there said “hell no”.
I can’t get quote tags to work here. 
I like people from Englewood. They got guts.
Put each quote tag on its own separate line.
Edit window timed out.
I’ll try doing the tags on separate lines next time.
“A largely black group…”
Don’t let the New York Post tell you about Chicago.
They quoted and linked the Chicago Sun Times. here’s their article.
Let’s see if you can find the differences in those two articles …
I gather you’re not a fan of due process.
I’m thankful the sick kids and their families weren’t hurt. This has to be a new low.
I think Chicago is going to lose millions in tourism. There’s no way I’d consider visiting right now.
It didn’t, but I never said it did because that wasn’t the point of my example.
My point is, where do you draw the line in general? These organized “looter gangs” are doing a lot more damage than just the stolen property. They are destroying businesses and livelihoods. They are forcing businesses to move out of areas where the residents badly need the goods and services they provide. They significantly add to our increasingly lawless social woes.
They are also doing tremendous damage to the just protests and causes because racists use these highly publicized and destructive incidents as fuel to promote their racist stereotypes of minorities. “See? They’re all violent and destructive. Throw em in jail, etc.”
It’s not like the tourism industry is doing well anywhere, anyhow.
But yeah, that’s an example of purely criminal behavior.