Actually, a very tiny minority on the order of a fraction of a percent of people did so. The anarchist reply would be that in an anarchic society where it is the common interest that production goes smoothly, the 99.9% would have a vested interest in stopping the 0.02% that's looting and such riots would not happen, whereas in our current system private ownership means that there isn't much of a reason to go out of your way to protect some rich corporations property.