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The Looting Will Stop When Store Owners Can Shoot On Sight
The Blue State Conservative ^ | 12/01/2021 | Parker Beauregard

Posted on 12/01/2021 6:50:24 AM PST by TheManWhoWantedToBeLeftAlone

In the upside-down morality of the left, it is perfectly acceptable for criminal gangs to target high-end stores free of consequences. At once ascribing poverty, immoral historical legacies, and contemporary systemic racism, we are supposed to believe that what is happening is actually a form of justice.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

There is no moral or humanitarian justification for the now-daily shoplifting and burglary sprees witnessed time and again in various California cities and across the country. Are the black youths hungry? Are they robbing a grocery store? Are they impoverished, thereby stealing the jewelry to sell? Or, are they simply products of a failed culture that are protected and encouraged by malicious political actors?

It should be as simple as saying that stealing is wrong. If it is not yours, don’t take it. If you want something, earn it.

It is a crime in and of itself that the criminal justice system allows this perverse form of social engagement to continue. As was seen in Waukesha, Milwaukee County’s John Chisholm, while not directly responsible for driving a car through a parade, is still responsible enough for not holding Darryl Brooks to account on decades of societal harm. Soros-funded DAs in San Francisco and Los Angeles – Chesa Boudin and George Gascon, respectively – lead the way in ideologically-driven and mind-numbingly corrupt policies that reward the evildoers and punish the law abiders.

Clearly, expecting our elected leaders to solve a problem they very much created with intentionality and have no interest in solving is a moot and fatalist approach. In any event, we should minimally rely on the government in its best moments.

The solution to rampant, unchecked criminal enterprise is the understanding that no one – regardless of their position in the intersectionality hierarchy – has the right to violate another person’s God-given, natural rights. Among these rights are life, liberty, and property. The logical extension is that all human beings have a right to defend such inherent rights.

And by any means necessary.

In an age when the police force, full of well-intentioned individuals but led by gaslighting political hacks, is neutered beyond recognition and in an age likewise dominated by groups of people uninterested in abiding by societal must-haves like goodness, decency, and respect, the only recourse is to provide citizens with the capacity to do what no one else can or will.

No doubt, this proposal will be misinterpreted (to put it nicely) or misconstrued (to put it honestly) as a call for an open season on black looters. This could not be farther from the truth. It just so happens that much of the crime waves are being conducted by black teens, but in my rural, all-white community there is just as much a necessity to arm citizens with sufficient recourse here as downtown Los Angeles. Let me be clear: This is not about race. This is about self-defense and self-preservation.

A business owner who has saved for decades and wakes up to find his life’s work vandalized and destroyed is not killed immediately, but do these criminal animals not steal his life anyways? Should we not believe that suicide, depression, substance abuse, and missing purpose now replace what used to be a thriving enterprise? The only solution is prevention.

Societies can only function when crimes are met with punishment. If a lawless thug knows he can steal with impunity on Monday, why would he not return on Tuesday? Therefore, it stands to reason that the looting will stop only when criminal elements fear the possibility of violent reprisal. Any burglar, robber, or looter would do well to think twice about smashing a storefront window lest they are on the receiving end of a shotgun slug or a burst of semi-automatic fire.


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; crime; looting; police; robbery; shoplifting
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To: TheManWhoWantedToBeLeftAlone

I don’t the argument is how much tolerance we should have over shoplifting. I think the argument is how much tolerance do we have for the murders, rapes, assaults, home invasions, etc that WILL occur if the bad guys are emboldened to commit organized large scale thefts with absolutely no fear of consequences.

So yes, store owners should be encouraged to protect property with force. Lots of it.


21 posted on 12/01/2021 7:06:25 AM PST by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good Bye Ellen)
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To: Delta 21

LOL. Well put.


22 posted on 12/01/2021 7:06:41 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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23 posted on 12/01/2021 7:07:14 AM PST by Delta 21 (Quarantine the sick. Protect the vulnerable. Hang the guilty. Free everyone else.)
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To: TheManWhoWantedToBeLeftAlone

“My property is more valuable to me than the life of a criminal” should be a default.


24 posted on 12/01/2021 7:08:47 AM PST by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: JohnnyP
Antifa in your face chanting “Protect people, not the property.”

Shoot them, too.

25 posted on 12/01/2021 7:10:26 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: TheManWhoWantedToBeLeftAlone

Just how does this blogger propose to implement this sort of remedy? Who will put forth such a law?


26 posted on 12/01/2021 7:14:13 AM PST by bigbob
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To: ClearCase_guy

That’s exactly what the former police chief told residents a few years back

‘Take care of it yourself, because all we can to is show up sometime later to write a report ‘


27 posted on 12/01/2021 7:16:21 AM PST by digger48
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To: TheManWhoWantedToBeLeftAlone

What the Mayor of San Francisco said back in 1906..

http://sfmuseum.org/press/clips20.html

“Let it be given out,” said the Mayor sternly, “that three men have already been shot down without mercy for looting.

Let it also be understood that the order has been given to all soldiers and policemen to do likewise without hesitation in the cases of any and all miscreants who may seek to take advantage of the city’s awful misfortune.

I will ask the Chief of Police and the representatives of the Federal military authorities here present if I do not echo their sentiments in this?”


28 posted on 12/01/2021 7:19:48 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (OUT of Facebook Jail! But for how long?)
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To: spincaster

I recommend a Browning A-5 shotgun.


29 posted on 12/01/2021 7:20:14 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Wuli

I’ve seen videos of looters brazenly strolling (not even hurrying) past security guards, and the looters’ arms are filled with stolen stuff. Once the looters realize that the guards aren’t allowed to actually shoot, the looting will continue.


30 posted on 12/01/2021 7:22:10 AM PST by Nea Wood (l)
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To: TheManWhoWantedToBeLeftAlone

If I were younger, I would get into the security business of putting bars on windows and doors....................


31 posted on 12/01/2021 7:24:54 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: TheManWhoWantedToBeLeftAlone
According to a brief report on cable this AM, Atlanta just elected a pro-crime mayor ...
32 posted on 12/01/2021 7:28:16 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: TheManWhoWantedToBeLeftAlone

Stop it. All of this is planned. Looting is just one more method to de-gentrify our cities.


33 posted on 12/01/2021 7:30:38 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: TheManWhoWantedToBeLeftAlone

Would the Castle Doctrine come in to play for store owners that are in states that observe this? just asking


34 posted on 12/01/2021 7:31:28 AM PST by southernindymom
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I recommend a Browning A-5 shotgun.


Too low a rate of fire, too few rounds. Good in the olden days, but for today’s looter crowds of 10 or 20, something sterner is required.

May I humbly suggest a GAU-19/a? With a rate of fire that is selectable to be either 1,000 or 2,000 rounds per minute, it is more than enough to quell the large crowds of today and work well into the future should looting crowds increase in size.


35 posted on 12/01/2021 7:35:43 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF
May I humbly suggest a GAU-19/a? With a rate of fire that is selectable to be either 1,000 or 2,000 rounds per minute,

Have you got an extra one I could buy? My local Cabelas seems out of those.

36 posted on 12/01/2021 7:38:44 AM PST by BipolarBob (WHY are there no Democrats on Mt. Rushmore?)
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To: TheManWhoWantedToBeLeftAlone

first make sure your in-store cameras are off ..


37 posted on 12/01/2021 7:43:03 AM PST by ßuddaßudd ((>> ☼ << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if s/he's white?")
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To: TheManWhoWantedToBeLeftAlone
Future city store fronts

38 posted on 12/01/2021 7:46:23 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Yes …that’s what needs to happen but never will until civilized concepts are destroyed…


39 posted on 12/01/2021 7:47:22 AM PST by TnTnTn
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To: BipolarBob

Have you got an extra one I could buy? My local Cabelas seems out of those.


Sorry I got the last one at my Cabelas, due to the tremendous demand - will keep you in mind in case something turns up.


40 posted on 12/01/2021 7:47:57 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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