[supremedoctrine]

I have gotta admit, as far as the logisitics and the “business model” for a new, re-thought form of criminal
activity goes, the flash mob is a pretty good one.
In this case you have almost certainly disarmed victims,
the storeowners, and a random public who could witness these
crimes (the random public) being equally disarmed, in fear for their lives by being totally outnumbered by the mob.
A citizen, or two, MIGHT intervene, just MIGHT , if he saw one perp wrecking/robbing a place of business, but if the mob is one or two dozen , all bets are off.
This is domestic terrorism plain and simple.

[Gasshog]

the Party suggests you employ the Newspeak definition of Redistribution Practice, comrade.

[sport]

If he/she does intervein, the political establishment will make damn sure he rues the day he did.

While i personally do not like to see these kind of things take place, my empathy for the businesses is zero. They elected the politicians who use the force of law to disarm them and render them unable to defend themselves. My advice to them would be get the hell out while they still can. They stay long enough, they willnot only lose their property, they will lose their lives also.Andone who lives near one of the zoos need to take a lesson of the fate of the Jews in the 1930s Germany.