Controversial bill would force business owners to take down bulletproof glass

Fox 29 Philadelphia ^

[Phillyred]

This piece of garbage Cindy Bass lives nowhere near these stores she is targeting with her BS! She lives in a very nice neighborhood in Philadelphia and probanly has plenty of security. This is outrageous!

[The_Media_never_lie]

Open season on Asians bill. Is there a bag limit?

[PGR88]

Can’t possibly understand the reason or flimsy justification used for this.

Black customers feeling insulted by high security in their dangerous areas?

Or is it simply a threat and money shake-down by a corrupt local politician?

[conservative98]

city hall designed to regulate ‘stop and go’ liquor stores

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How else would you go to a store? You stop and go....

[<1/1,000,000th%]

If the bill is enacted more stores in black neighborhoods will close. The Obamas will be saddened.

[Steely Tom]

Earlier.

[Paladin2]

No more drive through liquor stores?

[GnuThere]

The STORES are the source of the trouble?
Riiight, Cindy.

[lightman]

If the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania needed an enema they would stick the tube in Filthadelphia—and out would come New Jersey.

[Bob434]

[[ One part of the bill would force business owners to take down bulletproof glass inside their stores.]]

What T H E H E L L? Why not supply fully loaded pistols to criminals that ‘do business’ there? Oh and make sure to also pass a law forbidding store workers to be armed-

[FrdmLvr]

The day that bill became law would be the day I closed my shop in Philly and relocated to the burbs.

[vette6387]

“She wants to put some controls on these small stores that she says sell booze, very little food and are the source of trouble in her district.”

She’s Black and has had “requests from her constituents” to help facilitate their primary means of earning a living, armed robbery! Probably doesn’t like Kim Chee either.

[MurrietaMadman]

I ain’t saying it’s moslems... but it’s moslems

https://www.salatomatic.com/sub/vRvbmiBM7E

[alexander_busek]

Rich Kim resents the charge stores like his attract loiterers and argues calls to police are often met with a slow response.

There, fixed it!

Regards,

[aquila48]

[editor-surveyor]

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No city has that kind of power.

Why do people tolerate this kind of crap?
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[FrdmLvr]

Years ago, in the 70s, I went into a party store in Detroit which had an armed guard sitting on a platform up in the corner of the store looking down on the customers entering. And by armed, I mean he had a big ol rifle or shotgun right across his lap. I felt safe.

[Nevadan]

Many of the banks in my town have bulletproof glass protecting the tellers. I suppose this ridiculous example of a politician would have a problem with their protection as well.

[Dr. Sivana]

Good grief, 35 years ago near U of Chicago, the bullet proof glas goes up as you approach 47th Street to the north< Cottage Grove to the West, and 63rd to the South.

Pretty much all of Stony Island had the stuff.

Was it the liquor stores? Probably, especially the ones that "sold milk" (wink wink).

But it was also the Hayatt's Sandwich Shop, and the Harold's Chicken Shack on 53rd and Kenwood.

Look, if you want the liquor stores to go away, there are zoning tools for that. Purely defensive measures should never be illegal. No one puts them up unless they are necessary.

Of course, with no barriers, owners may inclined to resort to deadly force more frequently.

[tumblindice]

“Bass says she’s battling for her constituents.”

I actually read the article to try and find out her rationale for leaving shopkeepers vulnerable to ... her constituents.
It looks like she wants to make these shops easier to rob.
What the ....?