“In Philadelphia, about 40 boys swarmed into a suburban Sears in June and made off with thousands of dollars in merchandise”
Damn amish. Send them back to Europe where they belong.
Due to political correctness, they are not reporting that almost all of the “youth” involved are ghetto black youth. In other crimes, we’re allowed to be more descriptive of who perpetrators are, but in this case, we can’t say the obvious.
Of course not all black youth are criminals, any more than all terrorists are Muslim. But, how far do we have to take political correctness?
We have entered a new era of tribalism.
Shoot to kill
I once built a set of metal doors/gates for a pawn shop that allowed the operator to push a button and lock the front of the store down in case of a robbery while he disappeared into the back room and called the cops.
I don’t know if he ever used it but I thought he had a good idea. Of course libs would call it false imprisonment or some such.
Every employee armed with at least an extendable baton...
...MACE...
oh yeah... and a taser...
uniformed and undercover security legally permitted CCW...
...and armed with a well-oiled 9mm.....
It would only take making "flash rob" headlines once or twice...
... Big Momma would have a stern word with the twins; Oblivious and Lascivious....
Ths "fad" would become "so much yesterday".... really quick!
Remote locks on the doors. When you see a mob outside, just lock the doors.
Fire at will, store owners.
The obvious solution is a shotgun behind every counter!
Property crimes should be considered violent crimes for legal purposes. I don’t know why right-thinking state legislators can’t expand on the ‘home-is-your-castle doctrine’ and introduce state laws to immunize people who use deadly force to protect private property at private businesses. So even if you are not in immediate fear for your life, you should be able to shoot to protect merchandise.
Seems to me it would pass constitutional muster. We’d be dealing with the use of deadly force by private citizens and not any state actors — therefore no problem under the 14th amendment.
Correcting for grammar and punctuation.
The Japanese were upset with this--culturally insensitive of them.
“WHO YOU CALLIN BOY????”
I like my wife’s suggestion: make sure there’s only one door in, and it’s the same door out — and keep a couple of trained dogs there. Be sure they’re big dogs. Make it clear that if anything happens, the dogs are instructed to keep people from leaving the premises (until the police arrive). The nice thing about well-trained dogs is that they won’t bother anybody at all unless they’re told to.
In my experience, the sort of ‘utes’ typically involved in this sort of activity aren’t particularly fond of large, hostile canines - their very presence may be enough to keep the riff-raff away.
Now that strategy actually works only *if* the police actually arrive when called.
Guaranteeing they will have more and more flash robs!
Mark Steyn had a phrase for advice like that: "Preemptive cringing".