I posted this in my online journal as well.

BEYOND F*CKED UP-

Unless you've been living in a cave for the last week or so, I'm sure most of you know about Hurricane Katrina and the damage its caused in New Orleans and 3 other states. If you have read about it than I'm sure there's at least a small chance that you know about the looting thats been going on as well.

I have a question for you; if your town is about to be hit by a class five hurricane (the hightest possible class of hurricane), what do you loot? Is it food and water? Maybe an inflatable raft to use when the floods come? Be honest, maybe its that 40" tv you've always wanted.

Guess what the looters went for first...it wasn't any of those things.

Guns and drugs.

No, I'm not kidding. Gun stores and pharmacies were hit harder by looting than any other business. Thats scary. Thats VERY scary. Does anyone else get why thats scary? Could somebody please explain how anyone could possibly think "Oh, no! A hurricane! My entire family's survival is at stake! I better get some guns and some viagra!" It doesn't make sense to me.

I'd loot survival gear or food and water before I'd ever loot guns. Hell, I'd loot tobacco stores and I DON'T EVEN SMOKE! Think about it, C5 hurricanes are accompanied by winds that are strong enough to drive straw through a plank of wood six inches thick! You and I are a lot softer than a six inch plank of wood, whats to stop that straw from going right through your skull? What if its not straw at all but a train car blowing your way?! IS A GUN GOING TO COME IN HANDY THEN, YOU MORONS?! What are you going to do, idiot? Shoot the wind?! And are drugs really that much better?! It'll take a lot of tylenol to make you whole again after your house caves in on you!

Maybe no one else understands why this freaks me out, I don't care. These people need to get their priorities straight, can't anyone else smell a scary and paranoid climate here?! I know its not every single person there, but the fact that such a massive amount of people consider guns and drugs their top priority is BEYOND f*cked up. Its scary.