Posted on 12/15/2017 4:09:51 PM PST by BackRoads775
The Philadelphia City Council voted 14-3 on Thursday to pass a bill allowing the city's Department of Licenses and Inspections to ban shop owners from protecting themselves and their employees with bulletproof plexiglass.
Philadelphia 8th District Councilwoman Cindy Bass, who sponsored the bill, said previously that having to see plexiglass represents an "indignity" to her constituents.
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“Bullet proof glass” is made with Lexan, not Plexiglass.
I see a lot of stores moving out of Philadelphia.
Absolute absurdity!
So many things wrong with this.
We won’t do anything about thugs committing real crimes, so we’ll make criminals out of innocent people trying to protect themselves from being victims.
If I owned store in Philly and they made me take the screen down and the next night one of my employees was injured during a robbery I would sue the City for everything they had.
This is insane. And it’s targeted at the productive Koreans who run businesses in the #### hole that is Philly. I expect they’ll be moving soon. And then these Demscum will complain about why the economy and tax base crashed.
I have not sympathy for the people who voted these Demscum in...
Interesting. I guess I’m just not sure how that works.
The law is stupid. Really stupid, but If the materials used to build a structure cannot be regulated, I’d be surprised.
their is a code of course but do not control bullet resistant glazing
Bulletproof glass makes for a hostile work environment for her constituents.
This is a roundabout way by blacks of closing these shops, which sell things like beer, liquor shots, and junk food to young people and their elders who apparently can’t control their own appetites - black leaders think they’re hurting the black minority community - another minority community - Asians who run the shops - will be losing their livelihoods.....
Bingo...more indignity having to go further to get supplies. What a totally idiotic law....bet the lawmakers have protection in their office building...
Anyone from Philly here?
Is there any truth that these little bodega type stores ARE drug fronts? I suspect they are, but,
If so, how does banning the glass help? Or hurt? Is there any other reason besides “feelings” behind this apparent idiocy?
“This ordanence that should be ignored ... imho”
Yes, because that is the quickest way to get this travesty into court and getting it overturned. Maybe this Black Councilwoman should try to better understand the lawless behavior of too many of her “constituents.” This “Bureau of Licenses and Inspections” leaders need to spend some time in court explaining why they have any right to tell a shop he doesn’t have the right to take measures he thinks are necessary for his and his employees safety, garnering a big fine and some jail time in the process.
Bullet resistant glass prevents her constituents from killing korean shop owners and robbing the
The law promotes crime and murder
Next, the Philadelphia City Council will probably outlaw locks on shops, as they tend to represent an indignity and an insulting affront to Councilwoman Cindy Bass’s honest, honorable, and trustworthy constituents.
This law is capricious. Stupid. Pointless. Illogical. Unreasonable. And a threat to life. The shopkeepers should band together and tell the Council to go to Hell.
I see it as an opportunity to open a tactical training and gun shop. Invite all the store owners who have to take down their Lexan for a free gun safety lesson.
Might as well turn lemons into lemonade. That’s the capitalist way.
This BS reg can’t possibly survive a court challenge. All it will take is anyone with the Cajones to sue these city morons.
Or the law of unintended consequences. Stores will be closing and moving out in Philly proper meaning less available for those that live there, and prices are going to go up with the increases in insurance.
I think the city council should be afforded the same level of protection as the stores, and be forced to personally interact with their indignant constituents on a one-on-one basis around the constituents residences.
A landmine in every pot!
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