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Liberals Will Have To Outlaw Barbed Wire Now
California malls are resorting to barbed-wire barriers after a string of flash-mob smash-and-grab lootings. Previously on “California Voters Are Stupid,” we saw California voters approve propositions to release thousands of criminals from jail and reduce retail theft under $950 to a misdemeanor. (So, basically, the Waukesha mass murderer could have made bail by stealing a couple of TVs from Best Buy without adding to his existing criminal charges.) Then, to compound their stupidity, they elected radical-left district attorneys who think crime is just a symptom of poverty and therefore refuse to prosecute criminals because it’s mean to poor people or something.
You have to be deeply, deeply Californian not to understand how releasing criminals from prison while simultaneously defunding the police will lead to an increase in crime. Retail store owners are running out of options. The police won’t arrest what the DAs won’t prosecute, and the criminal class knows this and knows it can loot stores at will with little chance of being caught and less chance of being prosecuted. (Also, the political class wants you to know you shouldn’t call it “looting” because “Looting is a term that we typically use when people of color or urban dwellers are doing something.”) So, now they have to barricade their stores and homes with barbed wire and layers of security, which also happens to be a common practice in many of the countries where California’s immigrant populations originated. But that’s only because the governments in those countries are corrupt, and the police cannot be relied upon to protect the citizenry.
Following Democratic-left reasoning sentiment that stigmatizing bad behavior or making criminals feel bad about themselves “is not who we are,” it’s quite easy to predict what happens next. You can’t have barbed wire surrounding retail malls and making the criminal class feel unwelcome. Imagine the hurt feelings. Before long, some progressive legislator is going to proclaim that barricades and other security measures are “traumatizing to marginalized communities,” and there will soon be a law making it illegal to use barbed wire or other security measures in homes or private businesses. The law will exempt government facilities and the private property of members of the state’s legislative, judicial, and executive branches.
They will also pass a law making it illegal to defend yourself if you “should not have been there” wherever you were attacked.
Rico Chet sez: “Kids, when you’re boiling lead in the home, always check with your parents before you dip your finger into it!”
My wife asked what could they steal from Walgreen’s that was worth more than $950. Louis Vuitton purses? Maybe one.
This looks like a normal upscale house on the main road around the beach in a small seaside town in Malta (Marsascala). The style is universal.
Make-up. When I lived in a neighborhood where the only store was a drugstore, I used to walk the make-up aisle to get from the back entrance to the front of the store. The shelves are jam-packed with shelf displays, with up to 100-200 units per display. The only thing I know about the price of make-up is that girls in junior high used to complain about it, but $10 per unit wouldn’t surprise me a bit. There are tens of thousands of retail dollars on that aisle.
He was happy voting for the candidate that donated to a bail fund for violent rioters.
The people on Jan 6 weren’t violent. The only person shot was a US veteran.
Nice straw man there councilor.
Next allegation.
I am surprised, given the stream of gun safety comments recently on Richochet, that no one did an analysis of Pam’s grasp of the sidearm in the movie poster.
Maybe the Commies in the Peoples Republic of Kalifornia can go full commie and emulate the Berlin Wall.
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At least it’s pointed in what we assume to be a safe direction.
You mean like this?
You’d think Bond, James Bond, would have better sense than that.
Shoot the bastards before they leave the premises with the stolen goods.
Excellent!
Thieves get what they deserve.
How about those who get 10 percent for the big guy? Do they get 10 percent of what they deserve?
Exactly. It’s like gun control. We don’t need to lock up criminals, just lock up all the guns and criminals will stop behaving violently.
We saw that done for the fancier homes in Belize. Not only was there glass on top of the walls, but almost every yard had a large dog roaming free . . .
And there is one of my grumbles. It is really hard to keep a friendly dog. They keep getting stolen or killed. And if you have a not so friendly dog I worry about them attacking friendly people. None of the guard dogs here have any real training so there is some risk there. I have had friendly dogs killed by the neighbor’s dogs in the past. On the other hand its Africa….
You may remember the headline in a CA newspaper a long time ago: Crime is Down, Yet Jails Keep Filling.
Imagine that! Lock up criminals and crime goes down. Amazing, ain’t it?
On the other hand, some liberals insist that locking up criminals does nothing to reduce crime. [ rolls eyes ]
Easily in the top ten Casablanca remakes of all time.