Who said they were innocent? Police with deal with them, insurance will deal with the damage, public execution by 17 year old kids is not the solution.
Reading this sentence generally I'm understanding the following:
1. Rioters are bad
2. Police handle the riots
3. Insurance handles the burning buildings and looting
I don't see anywhere citizens defending their property being considered. I am not saying this particular person was "defending their property". The implication of your statement is if a rioter shows up at my business or home I should get to my knees and wait for police to arrive. Insurance will cover the damages, and with any hope they'll catch the bad guy and my medical bills will be paid too. I feel like if I own a business and rioters are there I'm going to round up a posse and camp my roof with rifles. Why wouldn't I if I've spent much of life savings creating this thing? You're oversimplifying the problem by assume people have the insurance to cover an act of God and moreover assuming that, for lack of a better word, this just a "tantrum" rather than an ideological drive by the rioters.
More considerations:
0. Home invasion statistics show even when it goes in the favor of the occupant (in other words they didn't die) they are maimed or worse.
1. Insurers will refuse to cover acts of God (riots). Businesses will declare bankruptcy and either never show up again or refuse to build in towns with riots. This increases class disparity and income disparity - the antithesis of what the left wants at it's core. Cheap plots of land where you can build a trinket store is exactly what the left should be protecting if the goal is to provide more avenues for wealth growth by lower income individuals.
2. (1) will travel up the chain to megamarts and they won't build either.
3. Under no circumstance will someone not defend their property.
It's truly unfortunate more states do not have a castle doctrine. Your home is truly your castle and under no circumstance should to surrender to any criminal. Be it rioter, looter, robber, or otherwise.
I do question the shooter's actual motive especially w.r.t crossing state lines. I do not object to business owners, homeowners, and others defending their town from violence.
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