This isn't about Louisville or Kentucky or Indiana, but it could be.
In Los Angeles, thousands of people have tragically watched their homes burn to the ground. Firefighters and police are working around the clock to fight the fires. Two-hundred-thousand terrified people have evacuated their homes. The Red Cross has hundreds — if not thousands — of volunteers on the scene to help all the people mentioned above. In all that, some very bad people have used these circumstances to add to the misery.
People with broken moral compasses, broken brains and a complete lack of human decency are breaking into evacuated homes to steal whatever they can carry. Some groups of thugs are riding motorized scooters through neighborhoods and robbing homes where the power has been cut to reduce the chance of more fires. Citizens have had to stand in their yards with baseball bats to encourage the gangs to find an easier house to rob. Still, other looters have been wading through the destruction in the Palisades looking for anything of value that hasn’t been destroyed.
This isn't happening here, but, sadly, we know it would be if we were experiencing a tragic event these miscreants could exploit. It makes me wonder how many people who thought it was a good idea to defund the police or fire department still think so.
What are your thoughts?
I'm Bill Lamb, and that's my Point of View.
