Posted on 03/23/2022 8:25:12 AM PDT by vespa300
A fed-up Walgreens customer — tired of the rampant, brazen shoplifting in northern California, with little resistance and fewer consequences — decided to do something about it Saturday when he witnessed a man putting bottles of pills into a backpack, KGO-TV reported.
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I agree with your general train of thought. As I see it, it’s a risk/reward kind of thing. Let’s say a person is being violently assaulted. Is it worth the legal and physical risk to me to try to stop that assault? Yes it is.
Now let’s say some guy is shoplifting. I’m not happy to see that. But no, it’s not worth the legal and physical risk to me to try to stop that theft.
Some folks say “you’ve got to teach that thief a lesson”. Well, the only lesson that Walgreens thief learned was to care a knife next time.
Oh there’s no saving this civilization.
As I have posted before, I was in Mongolia after the demise of the Soviet Union. Short version of the story is they were rediscovering their past and excited about the future.
In their case they were rediscovering Chinggis Kahn and Buddhism. What will we rediscover?
“If it’s not on video, it didn’t happen. If it’s on video, especially in California... it’s a huge risk.”
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You have to think about that. If somebody says you beat him while screaming racist slurs, do you prefer to have a record of what actually happened or just hope that everybody in CA, including LE & the legal system, believe your version?
But defense of property, no way. Someone else's property, no way.
But more to the point, I carry. And as such, I am very circumspect with regard to my involuntary encounters with the general public.
I am polite and deferential to the point of obseqiousness, and I am not going to try to give impromptu etiquette lessons to random strangers.
All other lives are irrelevant to me unless they prove they belong in one of the above categories. Shoplifting falls into that category. Woke corporations hate me and want me dead. Fuck them. People can steal all they want from them and I will not even be a good witness.
“Anybody that pursues a shoplifter is an idiot.”
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Well-intended, but not bright. The business pays people to handle shoplifters however the business decides to handle them.
If someone’s life or limb is being threatened, i.e. personal injury is being inflicted, it’s different.
For a couple bottles of cold medicine, nope. In that case, you let the proprietor know someone’s boosting some merchandise.
Some guy behind a counter isn’t going to take care of your wife and kids because you tried to save 3 bottles of Flintstone’s vitamin and a box of Kleenex from walking out the door.
Most purchasable items have some type of federal tax applied in their processing stages or transportation stages that ultimately gets paid through their purchase at the store by the end user. Corporations have to pay taxes on the profits received and the governments...state and local lose tax money by the local stores and businesses taking theft loss tax deductions off their taxes. Local and state governments lose potential sales taxes. The Feds could assert control under tax fraud regs if they wished since what these criminals are doing interferes with the collection of federal revenues.
I’m surprised the municipal governments don’t try to rein in their woke local prosecutors on the loss of tax revenue alone. They can tie in the Prosecutors’ salaries and their office budgets with the loss of the sales tax revenues not being received because of the lack of enforcement of laws against theft crimes. When the prosecutors object...the reply can be...”Since you think businesses should offer their products for free, we think the local prosecutors should work for nothing!
This is exactly why LE must enforce laws. Otherwise, this is what may happen.
This is what it is going to take for us to take our country back.
Nobody is going to do it for us while we wring our hands about the situation.
And yes, we will have to fight a corrupt judicial system. That will be necessary, too.
Yes of course but D-FENS was always going to get caught doing it his way. We should strive for vigilantes to not get caught, because you can’t dispense justice from a prison cell.
What is also sickening, is most people here realize instantly that the police and the DA will bring the full force of the State against a vigilante, and in the same breath proclaim the police and the State don’t have enough resources to stop every criminal. But don’t you dare protect your community yourself.
That’s the best video I’ve seen in awhile.
Like the guy said, those shoplifters raise the prices for him.
Anybody that pursues a shoplifter is an idiot.
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Does that include the shop owner, the security guard, and the police?
Me too.
As I recall in Texas, you can use deadly force on someone if it’s after dark and they break into your car to steal or try to rob you. It’s a quirk in Texas law that you can do that. Your life doesn’t even have to be in imminent danger.
But it has to be after dark. Probably goes back to the old west days. I love Texas for stuff like that.
The DA in California will probably have him arrested within a few days.
Yes. Thanks for posting the link.
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