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The system we have today is designed to protect the criminals from the tax paying citizens and the business owners. The police want us to all be victims. They like to come and draw a chalk outline of the dead victims.
The Dems want to protect their base which is filled with lowlife robbers and rapist.
Police don’t protect businesses. Business owners protect their businesses. My dad, brother, and son were all cops; and they would tell you the same thing.
The police and the lawmakers are paid by the taxpayers, but they protect the criminals who don’t pay taxes. What a system.
It happens probably nightly. A citizen fights off a criminal in order to protect his property. But it doesn't always make the nightly news. In this case it did.
But...
How much easier and safer would have been this takedown of a punk in New York City if the clerk had been equipped with a hand gun rather than just a vodka bottle? How much less of a burden to the taxpayer too, who will now have to incarcerate the criminal?
And just think of chilling effect it would have on criminals if shootings of miscreants during crimes like this were on the nightly...
Ret. cop
of thirty years
Wishing you and family a Happy New Year...