The flooding isn't near as bad on the MS Gulf Coast as it is in NOLA. My wife also said she thought that Haley Barbour said something like,"Looters will not be tolerated. More than likely there will be someone with a gun inside the house or shop being broken into."
The media has hardly talked about the damage that Hattiesburg received. There are people up here in Tupelo that came here from Hattiesburg to get away from the damage. MPB interviewed some people from Hattiesburg. They said there was some looting the day after the storm, but not a whole lot. Southern is okay, but the damage is sporadic.
Added to it, Mississippi Laws and Summaries on packing.org says..
§ 97-3-15 Homicide; justifiable homicide.
(1) The killing of a human being by the act, procurement, or omission of another shall be justifiable in the following cases:
(e) When committed by any person in resisting any attempt unlawfully to kill such person or to commit any felony upon him, or upon or in any dwelling house in which such person shall be;
(f) When committed in the lawful defense of one's own person or any other human being, where there shall be reasonable ground to apprehend a design to commit a felony or to do some great personal injury, and there shall be imminent danger of such design being accomplished
(h) When necessarily committed in lawfully suppressing any riot or in lawfully keeping and preserving the peace.
SOURCES: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 3 (2); 1857, ch. 64, art. 168; 1871, Sec. 2631; 1880, Sec. 2878; 1892, Sec. 1152; 1906, Sec. 1230; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 960; 1930, Sec. 988; 1942, Sec. 2218; Laws, 1983, ch. 382, eff from and after January 1, 1984.
So I figure looting is either a disruption of the peace or a felony committed against a person. If someone's in your house...Least that's how I interprete it...