Officials in Florida issued stark warnings to would-be looters during Hurricane Milton that they could get shot or arrested.
“Florida will not stand for looting—we will not stand for it. We will come after you,” Mark Glass, commissioner of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, told reporters on Wednesday morning.
A day earlier, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that “if you think you’re going to go in and loot, you got another thing coming,” noting that Florida is a “Second Amendment state.”
“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,” he said during a news conference….