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Do you honestly think, in your heart of hearts, that I "approve of looting"?
If so, that might explain your posts to me.
You may not approve of looting stores per se, but I do think that you would be more appalled at the looting of a Dollar Tree than a looting of a LV store.
Taxing rich people simply because they have the money is the same as looting. Rich folks and LV have it and people who don't want it. Seizing these things is the same thing as looting and the left justifies it unconditionally.
1. everyone deserves justice
2. it's not good for society when people burglarize places and get away with it. That just leads to more and more violence, criminality, etc.
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Originally Posted by ncguy50
You may not approve of looting stores per se, but I do think that you would be more appalled at the looting of a Dollar Tree than a looting of a LV store.
Taxing rich people simply because they have the money is the same as looting. Rich folks and LV have it and people who don't want it. Seizing these things is the same thing as looting and the left justifies it unconditionally.
Well, you’d guess wrong then. Looting and lawlessness is the same regardless if the store. Chaos is chaos.
But the law, on the other hand does figure in dollar amounts of damages when considering appropriate criminal charges so the LV looters would be treated more harshly by the courts than the dollar store ones.
If you catch the thieves and harm one during the arrest you run the risk of starting riots that will damage large swaths of the cities and ruining your life.
If you catch the thieves they are likely to get slaps on the wrist and not be deterred from future crimes.
The risk reward should lean towards not doing much of anything to stop the thieves if you are a cop.
TRANSLATION: You should turn all your property and valuables to the mob to consume and/or destroy,
And you must run away and cower, and beg the mob not to hurt you too much.
And for help, you must turn to government. But they won't do much, since the mob has more influence in govt than you do.
Theft may drive up the cost of LV goods, but for those who aren't ever planning to buy them, who pays is the customers and that company.
Not the rest of us.
When people routinely steal from your local grocery store that you patronize, then yes, you will have to pay more to cover that loss.
But LV is a very very niche market and this will cause them to tighten security or go under. It's somewhat unlikely they'll raise prices, with the stain of likely theft on those who carry their products.
The LV store was just one store hit that night there were others, and it's happened before last summer several stores were hit the same way. These are not just a bunch of people walking by decide to bash the window in spontaneous looting. They use stolen cars, and well planned attack I think they got the idea from riots. They hit areas where less chance of any guards "Nice areas of town" because their goal is to grab as many items at one time as possible. The main problem is the online fencing which makes it easy to sell all these products. It's really going to take a task force of multiple agencies to stop them.
CVS, and Walgreens have had this issue for over 2 years now we see the result.
I agree. In highly red state Oklahoma, the shoplifting limit before it becomes a felony was raised to $1000, but I never see anybody on here complaining about it.
I'm not excusing anything. I'm saying, it's still profitable to run their stores, because of the enormous mark-up. If they have a percentage of legit sales, and a lot of theft, they can still justify staying open.
Coincidentally, about a week ago I was talking to a friend who spends a lot of time in California, and she said the brand is losing a LOT of it's street reputation, because if you see someone carrying one of their products it's likely it was stolen. Marks the carrier as a likely shoplifter.
So there's that.
Clara, do you have an axe to grind with regard to LV?
LV is in the business to make money. Most businesses are, and do. Capitalism is alive and well, and I, for one, celebrate it.
Thank God we (still) have the freedom to purchase what we want. It makes no difference to me what people have, so long as it was obtained legally.
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