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 ...
Don’t just shop at Target....Be One.
Come be a, we mean, shop at, Target!
Be a target at a Target!
Odd, criminals not abiding by a request to not be armed. Who would have thought that might happen?
I know! I know! (Raising hand)
We could make crime illegal, and ask criminals to stay away!
Problem solved!
Right?
I’m a Target! Your a Target! Don’t you want to be a Target too!
I’ve never understodd Target Stores’ focus.
Groceries, clothes, toys ?
A rather silly situation IMHO...
I was at Target yesterday. There are NO signs that prevent firearms thus I was in fact armed (concealed).
Target made a respectful request as a private business owner for you to leave your firearms at home. I quietly chose not to comply... It’s that simple...
Maybe some should be more upset as to why Target decided on this policy...
http://www.twincities.com/nation/ci_25889795/armed-gun-rights-demonstration-at-texas-target-store
Because you can doesn’t always mean you should...
Wait a damn minute.... Your idea will not work, you had no hashtags, or as I like to call them, pound signs.
I know!
Next thing you know, people will start doing illegal drugs.
No need to wear a bulls eye on your shirt at Target, it’s a given.
Nice Target...like having your customer robbed? I guess you do with your data breach and now this...
HMMM, lets see...
Shootings at schools = gun free zones
Shootings at army bases = gun free zones
Robberies at Target = gun free zone
Oh boy, these guns have a mind of their own. How do they get in?
And how many robberies or shootings occur at a gun show? How many robberies or shootings occur at a gun store? It should be in the thousands since there are so many mean guns there.
Just curious, but what was the crime rate at that Target prior to the “request”? Ditto that Jack In The Box. I’m not saying the public request didn’t prompt the attacks, but I’d like to know the whole story.
“Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc” is bad reasoning.
Sure, because there were no robberies at Target before.
Actually, gun shows would potentially be great targets for robberies. The patrons generally carry large wads of cash, as do most of the vendors. On top of that, the products being sold are almost universally high-value items.
It must be just that thieves don’t know how good the pickings are at them; that’s the only reason no one has tried to rob one yet.
Nice headline & sound bite.
But considering the variables, number of stores, previous stats for similar events etc, it hardly demonstrates correlation, much less cause and effect.
However, regardless of whether these particular events are related to the no gun request, common sense and previous events elsewhere demonstrate that they will happen because of the no gun publicity. Without a confession by a criminal, we just can’t prove which are correlated.
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.
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