SHOULD LOOTERS BE SHOT DEAD? "Shooting the New Orleans looters is, under present circumstances, an appropriate response to the collapse of civic order, and a first step towards the restoration of that order."

http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2005_08_28-2005_09_03.shtml#1125597101

Is violence the key to social order? Shooting looters is neither appropriate nor justified (you're going to have great difficulty proving to me that deadly force is necessary against a thief as it is).