When responding to Hurricane Ian last year, he remarked that he had seen a sign with the law-and-order message.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a news conference in Perry, Fla., on Aug. 30, 2023, in the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia. | John Raoux/AP PhotoFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday afternoon reissued a pointed warning to pillagers reportedly making rounds in areas devastated by Hurricane Idalia: “you loot, we shoot.”
“People have a right to defend their property — this part of Florida, you got a lot of advocates and proponents of the Second Amendment,” DeSantis said during an afternoon press conference. “You never know what’s behind that door if you go break into somebody’s house and you’re trying to loot, these are people that are going to be able to defend themselves and their families,” the governor added. “We are going to hold you accountable from a law enforcement perspective at a minimum, and it could even be worse than that depending on what’s behind that door.”
When responding to the deadly Hurricane Ian, which hit Florida in September 2022 and left more than 140 people dead, the governor remarked that he
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