[Paladin2]

Why not just close all such stores?

[monkeyshine]

Hey mayor I’ve got an idea for you. Mandate electric shock collars for everyone in the city. If you loiter in any one of these troublesome places for more than 3 minutes, you get a jolt and if you stay longer the intensity of the shock increases. If you return to that location within an hour you are shocked again. If you don’t keep moving more than 50 feet from any location in which you were shocked, the shocks keep coming with increased frequency. Troublesome locations will be determined by vote by cell phone and if any 3 people report a place as troublesome location, it is automatically added to the list. The shock collars will also have a decibel meter. If you yell, or play loud music, you get shocked.

This has been proven to work in scientific experiments. I’m sure it will fix your city. Trust the science.

[nonliberal]

I’ve never understood why a bunch of these store owners don’t get together and make a mutual commitment to shoot, shovel and shut up. Oh, and sorry cops, but those surveillance cameras are just for show. Or just lose the footage.

[Daveinyork]

Anything the store owners might do will get them arrested.

[RoosterRedux]

Victimhood is now a hardcore mindset among some minority citizens and their political representatives. They exist to demand and take by force their reparations. They have even convinced a huge percentage of non-minority Americans that their purpose for living is exclaiming their victimhood and getting reparations.

If you are the owner/manager/employee of a convenience store (aka reparations payment outlet), you are a symbol of the slave owners who created this problem in the beginning...and any violence at such reparations outlet is your fault.

[Wallace T.]

The Left complains about food deserts because grocery chains will not locate in high crime areas. So if the local City Hall officials force convenience stores to close, you have shut down even that, usually overpriced food, outlet.

The result of placing Soros funded officials into city halls, DA offices, and judgeships is the death of all commerce other than the narcotics trade and other vices. Running the gentrifiers and what is left of the middle and upper classes out will be another effect. Inner cities are becoming the urban equivalent of Indian reservations, unproductive and dependent on corrupt leaders.

[Chickensoup]

That is the solution. The only solution.

Leave.

[Joe Boucher]

Just how stoopid can this quota gal be?

[ridesthemiles]

THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WILL HAPPEN