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.
“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.