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Philly Lawmaker Moves To Ban Bulletproof Glass In Businesses
bluelivesmatter? ^ | 11/28/17 | GinnyReed

Posted on 11/29/2017 4:49:38 PM PST by blueyon

Philadelphia, PA - Philadelphia councilwoman Cindy Bass has introduced a controversial bill that would require business owners to take down any bulletproof glass they have in their businesses, and not allow future installation.

The bill, known as the Stop and Go bill, is moving through city hall, and reads "No establishment shall erect or maintain a physical barrier."

Broad Deli is a local business on the corner of the 2200 block of North Broad. It has a wall of bulletproof glass separating its employees from customers.

"The most important thing is safety and the public's safety," Rich Kim, the owner of Broad Deli, told WTXF. His family has run the deli, which sells soda, snacks, meals, and beer by the can, for 20 years.

Kim said that he had the bulletproof glass installed after a shooting, and that it saved his mother-in-law from a knife attack.

"If the glass comes down, the crime rate will rise and there will be lots of dead bodies," he said

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: bulletproofglass; cindybass; councilwoman; crime; pennsylvania; philadelphia; protection; safety
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To: blueyon

I recall after the LA riots Korean business owners protested local government foot-dragging on the steps of LA City Hall. City employees used the occasion to drop whatever solid objects from their offices they could find onto the Korean shop owners. Something about this Philly story reminded me of that LA story.


41 posted on 11/29/2017 6:11:13 PM PST by BillyBonebrake
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To: hanamizu
I have lived a sheltered life.

Nah...not really...you just haven't been robbed and had your ass shot off by every third customer.

Try to run one of these stores in one of these Dindu Nuffin neighborhoods...without the precautions.

After the third robbery, if you're still alive, you'll be putting up twice what the one you were in had.

I know...I've had to spend some time in E.St.Louis, Chicago, the ghetto of KC...a few other places.

I don't blame them a damned bit.

42 posted on 11/29/2017 6:42:35 PM PST by OldSmaj (The only thing washed on a filthy liberal is their damned brains.)
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To: blueyon

Glass installations aren’t cheap. Is she going to reimburse those businesses the cost of their installations under the former lack of a law? If not, I would sue her.


43 posted on 11/29/2017 6:56:14 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: blueyon

Stupidity is infinite in government.


44 posted on 11/29/2017 7:04:16 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: blueyon

When you think you’ve seen the dumbest thing ever, someone comes along to prove you wrong!


45 posted on 11/29/2017 7:06:40 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: Drew68

“They are primarily in the business of selling cheap 40 oz. cans of high-alcohol malt liquor to black men and she’s trying to drive them out.“

So.....these black men will now have to go farther afield to get their malt liquor?

L


46 posted on 11/29/2017 7:09:38 PM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: vladimir998

No, she doesn’t need to. Like I said, many of these black city councilmen or aldermen don’t live in the very area they represent.


47 posted on 11/29/2017 7:15:12 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (10% pure, flat income tax for everyone. No deductions, credits, or loopholes.)
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To: blueyon
It would be easier to require that store owners do not lock there stores at night.

48 posted on 11/29/2017 7:18:41 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill: NFL, Hollywood, NBA, BLM, CAIR, Antifa, SPLC, CNN, ESPN, NPR, TWITTER, FACEBOOK)
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To: blueyon

I remember when Banks didn’t have Bulletproof Glass, back when I worked for a Bank.

Of course this isn’t surprising considering Democrats have no problem taking away a person’s Right to self defense using a Firearm.


49 posted on 11/29/2017 7:24:50 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: blueyon

Then take them out of the police vehicles as well. Fair is fair!


50 posted on 11/29/2017 11:50:22 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: All

Perhaps these business owners could band together and buy several billboards with the nice lady’s pic and home address on it....


51 posted on 11/30/2017 5:39:31 AM PST by Maverick68
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To: keving

How are guns banned? PA is a Shall Issue state.


52 posted on 12/01/2017 10:11:16 PM PST by Eagles6
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