Originally Posted by PersonaNonGrata

The movie you are thinking of is "Falling Down" with Michael Douglas.

We probably won't agree on this but the very things you listed are why civilian ownership of guns is necessary. Katrina brought out the most vicious and opportunistic parasites who would slit a throat for some loot. Without a means of defense, many more people would have been victimized. Those who were armed were far less likely to be victims. If something like the "Fiscal Cliff" causes civil unrest and riots, be sure that there will be the same kind of vicious opportunistic jackals preying upon defenseless people. Again, these events are not about guns and the risk they pose so much as a testament to what some people will do to other human beings and why those human beings need the option to defend themselves.

Katrina proved also that law enforcement is incapable of protecting everyone in the best of circumstances much less in a critical incident or disaster scenario. Hell, the cops in New Orleans were as dangerous as the criminals but that is a different story. As the great sayings goes, "I carry a .45 because a cop is too heavy" and "When seconds count, a cop is only minutes away".