Posted on 07/10/2014 4:55:01 AM PDT by bestintxas
On July 2 Breitbart News reported that interim Target CEO John Mulligan "respectfully" asked law-abiding citizens not to bring their guns in Target stores.
Since then, Gainesville, Georgia, police have arrested three over a Target parking lot robbery and are looking for another man who punched a woman and stole her Mercedes at a Decatur, Georgia, Target as well.
Just days after Target's request the Gainesville Times reported that three men were arrested for allegedly pulling a handgun to rob a man in a Target parking lot. The three – Xavier Holland, 21; Zuccari Goudelock, 20; and Kenneth Long, 17 – were arrested, and "the committal hearing is set for July 21."
Then, just three days after Target's request that law-abiding citizens leave guns home, a woman was beaten in a Decatur Target parking lot and her Mercedes was stolen. According to Decaturish.com, it was around noon on July 5 when "a black male wearing a green t-shirt punched her in the head and she fell to the ground."
Thereafter he stole her purse and her car.
Within two weeks of asking law-abiding citizens to leave their guns home, two Jack in the Box stores were robbed, and a shooting took place at a third.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Good.
At a Tacoma, Washington IKEA store a customer was asked to go and leave his gun in his car if he wanted to shop there. The person was the police chief, in uniform and of course, armed.
You may very well be correct, but to use this opportunity to hammer the message is good politics.
That’s unexpected. Who would have guessed that a guarantee of unarmed victims would attract crime?
Yeah... pull out and aim a gun at a vendor in a gun show.
You’ll have twenty guns trained on you within a second.
“The publicity surround the first crimes reported since the no gun request was announced will make more robberies likely. Kind of funny unless you’re the victim.”
Criminals are not stupid. This is not about fostering criminals to rob more.
Criminals already know where it is easier to rob someone.
What the publicity does is alert a public that they are taking their life in their hands by allowing the store to strip not just them, but ALL others in the store of any sort of protection.
No, criminals are stupid.
Just this week:
“Police: Man robs motel hours after release from jail”
http://www.kystandard.com/content/man-robs-motel-after-being-released-jail
The place he robbed is walking distance from the jail where he was released. LOL
Hope Target is sued into the dirt.....
“Your idea will not work, you had no hashtags...”
Oh, that’s right! The rules have changed, and you can’t have a valid “cause” without the tic tac toe thingy.
Never mind. We’ll just have to let crime stay legal. Especially inside the beltway.
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