A.G. Gancarski
Another hurricane brings another unambiguous assertion of Floridians’ right to self-defense from the state’s Governor.
“If you think you’re going to go in and loot, you got another thing coming,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said during a briefing at the state’s Emergency Operations Center.
“If you go into somebody’s house after the storm passes, think that you’re going to be able to commit crimes, you’re going to get in really serious trouble. And quite frankly, you don’t know what’s behind that door in a Second Amendment state.”
Variations of this theme are a staple of storm press conferences for DeSantis, and Hurricane Milton continues the tradition familiar to Floridians who were around for 2023’s Hurricane Idalia and 2022’s Hurricane Ian.
“This part of Florida, you’ve got a lot of advocates and some proponents of the Second Amendment. And I’ve seen signs in different people’s yards in the past after these disasters, and I would say it’s probably here, ‘You loot, we shoot.’ You never know what’s behind that door,” DeSantis said in Perry in 2023.
Speaking near Fort Myers in the leveled community of Matlacha in 2022, he told a similar story.
“They boarded up all the businesses, and there are people that wrote on their plywood, ‘you loot, we shoot,’” DeSantis said. “At the end of the day, we are not going to allow lawlessness to take advantage of this situation. We are a law-and-order state, and this is a law-and-order community, so do not think that you’re going to go take advantage of people who’ve suffered misfortune.”
116 comments
Joe
October 8, 2024 at 9:40 am
How cute, Tiny D is miming Tiny-Crowds Trump’s tough guy act: “When the looting starts, the sh–ting starts!”
Aspiring dictators would look up to him, if only they didn’t have to look down to see the Lil Guv.
Tom
October 8, 2024 at 9:55 am
The damned hurricane is not even here yet and he’s starting with the culture war stuff already. What a clown.
JohnD
October 8, 2024 at 6:29 pm
No, he’s just warning what could happen to woke freeloaders like you if you dare try to take someone else’s property (aside what was confiscated from honest people to transfer to bottomfeeders like you).
Woke is a Joke
October 8, 2024 at 6:40 pm
Exactly
Bill
October 8, 2024 at 7:18 pm
Joe and Tom are probably sad because they have plans to loot.
Tom Woythal
October 9, 2024 at 2:05 pm
“Woke” does not mean “awake.”
yew oweme
October 8, 2024 at 10:21 pm
JOHND, what about maga cultist stealing like their leader trump, does that count dude? i would rather be a-woke, instead of asleep like you seem to be suggesting. dude, get over your fear, we don’t need it.
JohnD
October 9, 2024 at 12:11 am
Woke in this context means no common sense. Fool.
yew oweme nothing
October 9, 2024 at 12:00 pm
coming from group who wore mask for years even in cars by themselves!!!! Ha Ha
zcks
October 9, 2024 at 7:28 pm
Says the cultist who thinks looters are good people and who’s side things post birth abortions of babies are fine.
The world would be better off without you, go suck start a shotgun.
The Blue Wave is Coming!
October 8, 2024 at 11:32 pm
Nobody wants to steal your trailers, your bud light, and your kid rock albums. It all came from second hand store anyways. But I suppose if you want to murder someone because they’re stealing it, go ahead. We just switch from paying your disability to paying your prison life.
El Ruggo
October 9, 2024 at 4:08 am
You have all of that sooo backwards. Lefties on welfare, and freeloading visitors allowed in by rich lefties, are the crowd who would actively steal that stuff and then leave the door open for the weather to come in when they hit the next house.
Joshua Richard Nielsen
October 9, 2024 at 11:19 am
Ahhh, another person that thinks crime should have no consequence.
DougB
October 9, 2024 at 11:38 am
If you think saying Pretty Please to a looter protects you, post your address for them. I’m sure they would respect your wishes!
Jake Steed
October 9, 2024 at 2:53 pm
We Democrats have become the party of the elite instead of the working class. Stop looking down your nose at people because they aren’t as privileged as you are. I’m this close to becoming a libertarian because of people like you infecting the part.
Hose
October 9, 2024 at 4:34 pm
You seem to think there’s no repercussion for kicking in a persons door while they’re in the house….. you are a fool
Tom Smith
October 8, 2024 at 9:26 pm
Stop over after the storm and you’ll see what a war really is .. snowflake
wes
October 9, 2024 at 2:20 pm
you must be a looter
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October 8, 2024 at 11:54 am
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Tony Moye
October 8, 2024 at 5:04 pm
its the truth you pos …… come try to loot here and I am busting that A
God help us all
October 8, 2024 at 11:33 pm
You’re gonna bust in that A? Gay much?
David Williams
October 8, 2024 at 5:59 pm
I can see you are a FLAMING BRAIN-DEAD LIBERAL!
JohnD
October 8, 2024 at 6:24 pm
Too bad the second Amendment isn’t tolerated in your blue state. You can be a simp and just hand over your stuff to anyone who asks. Wuss.
Hose
October 9, 2024 at 1:28 pm
Then there is a very simple solution to not getting one self killed, and that is not to loot. Is that too much to ask of people like dems??
sxe
October 8, 2024 at 6:57 pm
Come loot hero, will be glad to give you a lesson is how lead poising works. Come on Joe, be the hero everyone on the left needs and wants
Ed Cane
October 8, 2024 at 8:39 pm
Are you disappointed that you can’t loot? You sound kind of angry about the fact that some people have a desire to protect themselves and their families along with their belongings.
Douglas O
October 8, 2024 at 9:14 pm
Oh, why don’t you go looting and let us know, when and if you come back, how everything worked out for you?
Tom Smith
October 8, 2024 at 9:27 pm
Stop over for a tap-tap joy-boy
Timmm
October 8, 2024 at 9:40 pm
F$&&k Harris
No more MAGAts
October 8, 2024 at 11:27 pm
Shooting someone for looting is murder. You poop for brains republicans should appreciate that because you’re anti abortion because it’s murder. You all can’t get your crap together! Go woke and say goodbye to being a broke joke!
tombeaux
October 9, 2024 at 1:52 am
“Shooting for looting is murder.”
Our State Castle law enables a person to defend themselves in their homes. As The Governor said “behind doors” which implies entry.
I dont need a perpetrator to loot. Perp enters, perp is offed or if possible knee capped just to watch the perp experience pain for trying to incite fear as I remind him of his right to remain silent,.
All while I shush him to keep it down as not to scare the neighbors while tending to my new guest by telling him its going to be alright, in a semi gas lighting kind of way. All purely for entertainment since most streaming sucks and finding good content these days is an effort.
Orlando the Free
October 9, 2024 at 5:17 am
No, shooting thieves is Social Sanitation, and Evolution in action. Leaving a looter’s corpse hanging with a sign around its neck is Public Education.
Larry Bradley
October 9, 2024 at 10:08 am
Best post of the day!
pete B Simpson
October 9, 2024 at 12:22 pm
YES!
bear
October 9, 2024 at 8:22 am
If the looter thinks my things are worth more than his life, why is it wrong to agree with them.
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener
October 9, 2024 at 10:43 am
actually it depends on the situation. What most of the folks on here don’t realize is that that whole “looters will be shot” mentality doesn’t apply as they think it does. Castle Doctrine still applies, and even FL case law doesn’t give you free reign to shoot someone if they’re merely stealing. There has to be a direct or implied threat of violence against a person. A few folks found this out the hard way several years back and are now serving time. Several LA police officers who were authorized to shoot looters were later found guilty of doing just that, and for the same reason.
Joshua Richard Nielsen
October 9, 2024 at 11:21 am
Wait, are you saying an adult with a garbage culture of taking what isn’t theirs and threatening a family is the exact same as a helpless child inside of a mother who had nothing to do with the choice the mother made or happened to her? Do you really not see a difference between the two? Please tell me you just lazily regurgitated talking points and didn’t think through the logic of the comment.
Hose
October 9, 2024 at 1:47 pm
Not really….. homeowner: officer he was looting and when I came upon him he grabbed a kitchen knife and turned and swung at me. It was then that I shot him. Officer: OK that about wraps it but I need his statement. Homeowner: good luck with that..,,,
David Ryan
October 9, 2024 at 2:43 pm
Not if they are in your home
Hose
October 9, 2024 at 4:37 pm
Not really. After shooting them you put a knife in their dead hand.
Paul
October 9, 2024 at 4:39 pm
No its self defense
someone
October 9, 2024 at 5:27 pm
Shooting someone for looting is simply taking out the garbage while feeding the alligators
Fran griner
October 9, 2024 at 7:44 am
Yeah, sure go ahead and shoot a looter who isn’t threatening you and doesn’t have a gun. Then spend thousands for a lawyer cause you could be charged with murder.
bear
October 9, 2024 at 8:24 am
NO lawyer fees due to stand your ground law
Cigars Tampa
October 9, 2024 at 9:55 am
How do you know they DON’T have a gun… or a knife? Or that they don’t want to threaten you or your family, and commit other violent acts? Looters are making a conscious decision to commit a crime (or many crimes) so they are going to have to assume the risk that they might get hurt or killed in the process. This is Florida, not California.
Hose
October 9, 2024 at 1:51 pm
By definition if he broke into your home while you’re there he’s a threat to you and after you shoot him and put a knife in his hand then he really was threatening you…. You see dead men don’t get to tell their version of events…..
Cisco
October 9, 2024 at 4:40 pm
Breaking into a house while you’re there is threatening. So you cap him then put a knife in their hand.
HardRight22
October 9, 2024 at 8:18 pm
You are an idiot. You think we won’t dispose of the body?
Blow
October 9, 2024 at 8:01 am
So Sayeth Joe Blow…
Next time use your Joe Biden Q cards loser
Hose
October 9, 2024 at 9:09 am
You sound like a 2A hating dem who thinks it’s OK to loot with no repercussions….if you hate 2A so much you should move to a country more to your liking like the United Kingdom where if you dare to defend yourself, they put you in jail…..
Larry Bradley
October 9, 2024 at 10:07 am
Best small minded quote of the day.
Joshua Richard Nielsen
October 9, 2024 at 11:17 am
Pretty sure dictators do not like their subjects to own weapons ever… maybe revisit history and try again??
pete
October 9, 2024 at 12:21 pm
You going to be OK Karen? Is the “lil gov” in the room with you right now?
Lee
October 9, 2024 at 12:24 pm
You’re obviously a dick.
Samuel Green
October 9, 2024 at 1:27 pm
This is a serious situation and your facetiousness is over the top. Can you ease up for a day, people will die in this storm, with nothing to do with the Castle Doctrine.
Go away for a day, no time for that level of BS in a Cat 4 or 5 major hurricane.
Chris
October 9, 2024 at 4:42 pm
I was there for Irma. Signs at gas stations said we shoot looters….
Rich
October 9, 2024 at 6:59 pm
Sounds like you might be a looter. By all means…
zcks
October 9, 2024 at 7:29 pm
If only he was everything your hyperbolic post says.
People like you would be run of or gotten rid of and the world would be a better place.
HardRight22
October 9, 2024 at 8:14 pm
Cry baby leftists…all Demtards are looters so let the shooting begin.
Jess Sain
October 11, 2024 at 3:51 pm
First off, the Gov is stating reality. If you are a lowlife thieving rat, you stand a good chance of getting drilled. Meanwhile Trumps record crowd turnouts means you must be semi-retarded to call them tiny crowds. Now Kamaltoads phone boot sized turnouts…that’s funny.
MHDuuuval
October 8, 2024 at 9:51 am
There certainly are plenty of firearms in the US:
“More than 67 percent of criminal guns recovered in Mexico and traced by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in 2021 were sourced to the United States. That might even be an underestimate. The 16 percent of guns that couldn’t be traced back to a country of origin might still have come from America. Most criminal guns in Central America also come from the United States, according to other A.T.F. data.” 9/28/24 NYT
And, Mexico has a case before the Supreme Court this term that charges US with turning a blind eye to gun trafficking.
Cali
October 9, 2024 at 5:04 pm
Once someone buys a gun the gun company is not responsible for it. Mexico would have to prove the cartels bought directly from the gun company’s and we know that didn’t happen. Everyone wants to blame somebody other than the individual or individuals who bought and misused the guns and that dog won’t hunt here….
zcks
October 9, 2024 at 7:26 pm
And almost all of those are either stolen or sold to the cartels via programs like the one the DOJ ran called “fast and furious” where Obama’s head of the DOJ let slip they were letting the guns go through to push public sentiment against guns.
But nice try.
A Day without Desantis
October 8, 2024 at 10:11 am
The hurricane has room to grow,it has not gotten over the second stage such as the eyewall replacement stage ,that intensify before landfall Google Hurricane Eyewall Replacement Cycle
Stupid
October 8, 2024 at 10:14 am
He wants violence. He wants looters so they can shoot. Disgusting
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October 8, 2024 at 11:56 am
Your screen describes you well.
JohnD
October 8, 2024 at 6:26 pm
LOL! Exactly!
taxpayer
October 8, 2024 at 6:47 pm
you should be happy, if we have some darwin award winners extinguished while looting…. there will be more room for your precious “newcomers” to freeload (and vote democrat)
Ed Cane
October 8, 2024 at 8:50 pm
No. He’s saying if you loot, your bad choice could get you killed. Stating the facts. Do facts bother you? I know the truth does.
Hise
October 9, 2024 at 9:11 am
Maybe the question you should be asking is why are these people looting in the first place? And then the second question is why when they start looting is it somehow not OK to defend yourself and shoot them?
Hose
October 9, 2024 at 9:17 am
Then there is a very simple solution to not getting one self killed, and that is not to loot. Is that too much to ask of people like you?
Sam
October 9, 2024 at 5:07 pm
Why is it so bad to shoot a looter? A person who invaded your home and scared the daylights out of you and your family??? A looter who was found with one of your kitchen knives in his dead hand thus proving you capped him in self defense….🤤
zcks
October 9, 2024 at 7:25 pm
Your name perfectly describes you
Skeptic
October 8, 2024 at 12:07 pm
He is looking for an opportunity to deploy his death squads (Florida Guard) — thinks it will help him with Central American immigrants — doesn’t understand that most fled here to escape that level of violence
MHDuuuval
October 8, 2024 at 1:46 pm
Dee, like most MAGAs, pretends asylum seekers are running drugs into the US and guns into Mexico and Central America.
MHDuuuval
October 8, 2024 at 1:50 pm
“… the largest known group of fentanyl smugglers is not made up of immigrants traversing the desert or moving through secret tunnels — they are Americans coming through legal ports of entry. More than 80 percent of the people sentenced for fentanyl trafficking at the southern border are U.S. citizens, federal data shows.” (NYT, 10/2/2024)
Bobber
October 8, 2024 at 7:05 pm
That!s because they release the illegals into the country.
Hose
October 9, 2024 at 9:13 am
Regardless of whether what you said is true or not, what you’re not addressing is the fact that there are millions here illegally who broke our law to enter our country and that’s wrong but I can see why as a liberal you wouldn’t want to address the real issue….
Wilma
October 8, 2024 at 5:20 pm
Because they are!
Devon
October 8, 2024 at 6:45 pm
The cartels are forcing hundreds of illegals to each carry drugs for using their tunnels. Then once through they ask give it to the coyotes that in turn hand the drugs to the cartel on the other side. I was told that first-hand from an illegal here in Baltimore.
Ronin the Barbarian
October 9, 2024 at 10:38 am
You know nothing! Guardsmen are your neighbors, FOOL! All walks and all colors! Not some politician’s personal militia. And yes we do know how to shoot. But if we’re in the US we’re basically deputized police.
Billy Rotberg
October 8, 2024 at 3:01 pm
Sure! The ones you never caught are part of the data! LMAO
Mildred
October 8, 2024 at 4:21 pm
I endorse the Gov. Not every state allows protecting your property with deadly force and it is controversial for sure. The people in my FL community will not tolerate looting. We’ve met on this subject now that Milton is almost upon us. I’d offer that wannabe looters & opportunists are the ones posting opposition and are not in FL facing Milton.
Pete
October 8, 2024 at 5:29 pm
Doesn’t bother me. The only looting with Helene that I read about was a couple of middle aged white men who looted a Trump store
Hise
October 9, 2024 at 9:15 am
Fake news
John H
October 8, 2024 at 5:30 pm
Have any one you nay sayers been through a hurricane? Have seen a car on your street in the middle of the night driving slowly without its lights on? Sat in front of the remnants of your house to protect what little your family has left? Maybe you should go live in a sanctuary city, it’s certainly safe there.
Buck Wheat
October 8, 2024 at 5:46 pm
Well, most of us responsible folks take the stuff that can’t be replaced with us. And have insurance to cover the rest.
bear
October 9, 2024 at 8:29 am
You sure show your ignorance when it comes to insurance in Florida.
Sounds like you have very little you value if you think you can take it all with you.
Buck Wheat
October 9, 2024 at 10:13 am
Did I say take it all with me? Learn some comprehension, you douche.
Replacer
October 9, 2024 at 5:10 pm
Sounds like you don’t have insurance….
Buck Wheat
October 8, 2024 at 5:48 pm
Lol 2nd Amendment state as long as you are older than 21 to buy any type of firearm. Yes that includes shotguns
Mark Deckrd
October 8, 2024 at 6:31 pm
Seems like a fair warning as well as a logical deterrent if you ask me. If DeSantis really wanted people to get shot he would say nothing.
Dan phillips
October 8, 2024 at 7:02 pm
I like the sign “if your found here tonight you will be found here tomorrow”
Ronald Raygun
October 8, 2024 at 7:24 pm
I am tempted to go to Florida and loot after the hurricane, but I really don’t need any water-logged contents from flooded double-wide mobile homes.
zcks
October 9, 2024 at 7:23 pm
Hopefully you do, get caught and end up as gator food.
With every leftist fed to one the world becomes a better place.
Marc M
October 8, 2024 at 7:56 pm
Two stamped metal (like license plates) signs that I have seen, several times:
“If you can read this, you are in range”
and
“I have a shotgun and a backhoe. Any questions?”
LootieLouis
October 8, 2024 at 8:29 pm
My boys be saying them getting rolexes and big money and 80 inch TVs they can use as life rafts and the plan is to make millions.
Trippie redd
October 8, 2024 at 9:10 pm
Ewwww playa beledat ya femme
yew oweme
October 8, 2024 at 10:12 pm
EARL SHITTS, lay down you racist dog.
zcks
October 9, 2024 at 7:17 pm
Hopefully you get caught looting and are fed to the gators
Mitch Kumsrein
October 8, 2024 at 9:50 pm
Florida is crazy. I hope you all are safe.
A gun toting liberal, who would blast your nuts off if you stole from ne
Eric
October 8, 2024 at 11:12 pm
Tiny Deep pretends to be tough when it’s his wife wears the pants in his family. Keep on wearing the sparkling clean galoshes.
zcks
October 9, 2024 at 7:23 pm
Says the pro looter.
Hopefully you and your palls end up as food for the gators
Tennessee Budd
October 9, 2024 at 7:36 am
When I was a boy, it was common knowledge that “Looters will be shot on sight”. It was a more sensible time.
Jeff
October 9, 2024 at 7:57 am
Funny how all the liberals think people should be able to loot freely. The governor is just giving a warning that we do not tolerate lawlessness in the state. To those who say giving a warning before the hurricane even hits is being a wanna be dictator, you can’t give the warning after the power goes out. Look after Katrina at all the lawlessness and deaths.
Rosetta
October 9, 2024 at 5:32 pm
It’s ingrained in liberals that there’s no repercussion for theft.
Bilbo
October 9, 2024 at 8:39 am
Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
zcks
October 9, 2024 at 7:22 pm
You might want to look up what that actually means.
At the time laws stated that if they struck you again then they were committing a crime and it could not be considered a misunderstanding.
It also forced them to strike you with the other hand which was usually used for wiping, thus a big insult that could be responded to in a violent manner.
Nacy George
October 9, 2024 at 9:06 am
His comment is dangerous because some people might become fearful of looters and not evacuate so they can protect their property. They could put a strain on first responders and endanger other’s lives as well as their own.
StormyWeather
October 9, 2024 at 9:46 am
Excellent opportunity to get rid of some lowlife leftist scumbags and be justified in doing it. The governor just warned said scumbags, though many are too stoopid to listen.
Seth Friedman
October 9, 2024 at 9:48 am
WEATHER WEAPONS !!! PROOF: CVHOAX.COM
TimDoug
October 9, 2024 at 10:56 am
What an advertisement for Florida Tourism – Come to Florida and enjoy our Murder-Lust! We are just itching to take a human life like the satanic demons we are! 2nd amendment is the devils favorite amendment.
MHDuuuval
October 9, 2024 at 2:49 pm
Yep, this is one more aspect of MAGA governors cranking up the death chambers in their respective states. The death penalty is nice and legal — no fuss, no muss.
The anti-abortionists should now jump in and agree with my comment since they believe all life is sacred.
zcks
October 9, 2024 at 7:18 pm
If only he was everything you are afraid of, people like you would cease to exist
zcks
October 9, 2024 at 7:19 pm
Says the cultist who’s side believes in post birth abortions.
Hopefully you get caught looting and are fed to the gators
Joe Momma
October 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm
Click bait.
The author mentions Milton but the quotes are from 2022 and 2023.
Clickbait
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