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Trump suggests shooting shoplifters during California GOP speech
Fox News ^ | 9/29/23 | Houston Keene

Posted on 09/29/2023 7:55:43 PM PDT by Libloather

Former President Trump said he would use "federal law enforcement assets" to prevent shoplifting and theft during a California GOP speech on Friday.

Trump addressed the California GOP during a Friday luncheon where he discussed ideas to restore law and order in Golden State cities like Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Trump said that if elected, he would do everything in his power - "including sending as many federal assets as required to restore safety and peace" - for cities that have seen what he called a breakdown of law and order.

"We will immediately stop all of the pillaging and theft," Trump said. "Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store. Shot!"

The former president also said "we have the greatest law enforcement in the world" and that they "know what to do, but they aren't allowed to do anything because of incompetent politicians."

"The word that ‘they shoot you’ will get out within minutes, and our nation within one day will be an entirely different place," Trump said.

"There must be retribution for theft, and destruction, and the ruination of our country," he added.

Trump's comments come as the former president runs to take the Republican presidential nomination in a robust field of candidates. Trump holds a commanding lead in early GOP primary polls.

The former president's speech in California came after the second GOP presidential primary debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: banglist; california; crime; donatedonaldtrump; donatetrump; shoplifters; speech; theft; trump
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Water cannons. I really like water cannons.
1 posted on 09/29/2023 7:55:43 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

I’ve made it well past the mid-point of my life without ever shoplifting. It really wasn’t all that hard.


2 posted on 09/29/2023 7:59:19 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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To: Libloather

Mayor Richard J. Daley gave police the authority “to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand ... and ... to shoot, to maim, or cripple anyone looting any stores in our city.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Chicago_riots#:~:text=of%20tear%20gas.-,Mayor%20Richard%20J.,any%20stores%20in%20our%20city.%22


3 posted on 09/29/2023 8:01:35 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: Libloather

W00t.

Make looters a “season” with no bag limit.


4 posted on 09/29/2023 8:01:56 PM PDT by AAABEST ( NY/DC/CA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: Libloather

You loot, we shoot!


5 posted on 09/29/2023 8:02:19 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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"The word that ‘they shoot you’ will get out within minutes, and our nation within one day will be an entirely different place," Trump said.

He's not wrong.

I'm ready.

6 posted on 09/29/2023 8:02:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Libloather

Once again, Trump is not wrong....


7 posted on 09/29/2023 8:03:58 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Libloather

Heaven forbid any of America’s finest get hurt.


8 posted on 09/29/2023 8:04:39 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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To: End Times Sentinel

I took some extra ketchup packets one time.


9 posted on 09/29/2023 8:08:47 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Libloather

And rapists in Baltimore. Don’t forget them.


10 posted on 09/29/2023 8:08:48 PM PDT by Luke21
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"Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store. Shot!"

Good idea.

Prosecuting Hillary Clinton is also a good idea.

11 posted on 09/29/2023 8:08:49 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: End Times Sentinel

When I was 19 I shoplifted an Abba album and a Burton Cummings album from Woolworths. That is the extent of my life of crime.


12 posted on 09/29/2023 8:10:52 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Libloather
Let’s do this!
13 posted on 09/29/2023 8:11:05 PM PDT by Reynoldo (BurnLootMurder)
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To: Az Joe

Today’s liberals, especially the minority dems, say it’s just stuff....OKAY....Soooo,if it is just stuff and all the stores close because they kept losing all their stuff through stealing,is it still just stuff, when there aren’t any stores for you to shop?????


14 posted on 09/29/2023 8:13:40 PM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: End Times Sentinel

Exactly.


15 posted on 09/29/2023 8:21:10 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Fiji Hill

My thoughts exactly.


16 posted on 09/29/2023 8:21:20 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: NorthMountain

Along with deporting Gyorgy Schwartz.


17 posted on 09/29/2023 8:21:47 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Libloather

Same for illegal aliens. Call it de-lousing, and add ammonia to the water.


18 posted on 09/29/2023 8:23:41 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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To: Libloather

“a robust field of candidates” LOL!

Fox has joined the rest of the fake news empire.


19 posted on 09/29/2023 8:24:53 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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Water cannons. I really like water cannons.

I’d rather Ma Deuce. Now the vermin down.

20 posted on 09/29/2023 8:25:12 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Vacate the chair. Shutter the government until it can be correctly defunded.)
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