I have a wife, I have two children. What stops us from walking in and individually buying 5 cans? That’s 20 total. We just gamed the system. Are we wrong? Didn’t we follow the rules?

I won’t shame anyone for the choices they make. It’s not my place. Had everything been priced as if there were not a natural disaster taking place, what prevents a greedy person from buying ALL the water, and then there is none left?

I’m of two minds about it really.
By gouging, you ensure that one person cannot effectively prevent anyone else from getting water by buying it all up. This keeps enough on hand that anyone can come in and buy an expensive, but needed bottle of water.

On the other hand, it’s hard for someone who makes very little money…

Nothing says ‘let me enable drug users’ quite like giving them free needles.

This is journalism? I can’t believe this came across my aggregator today.

Our leadership? How about your average joe redneck? "Can I shoot it?"