“Do you know what kind of store was the most looted immediately after Washington was firebombed?”
Zorn said, “Gun stores?”
“You would think, but those were actually the last to go. The owners had guns, after all.”
“Supermarkets?”
“A close third. No. Electronics stores. Best Buy, Target, Wal Mart, any place with an iPod and video games. Even though the power was out. Even though people were killing each other in the streets. Even though the oceans were swallowing entire coastlines and the heavens rained down fire. Electronics stores.”
He chuckled to himself.
“Makes you think we deserved it. Everybody thought that the government would take care of them. Everybody thought that what happened was akin to a hurricane or a blizzard. Idiots. Do you know where I went when the looting began? W
