[gruez]

>We are excited for quality, owner operated pharmacies to return and replace them. Just like they served us before Walgreens came in and muscled them all out of business.

What makes you think that the owner operated pharmacies won't be targeted by shoplifters? Are a significant chunk of the shoplifters doing it for ideological reasons?

>It’s almost as if not looking out for your community results in that community not looking out for you.

Sounds like victim blaming to me. The whole point of having laws and law enforcement is to have an official way to pay your dues to the community and get protection in return, rather than having to pay for "protection" from the community itself.

[atatatat]

> What makes you think that the owner operated pharmacies won't be targeted by shoplifters?

Footage from the LA Riots.

[gruez]

You mean the one where korean store owners had to defend their businesses by shooting from the rooftops? That seems like an obvious case of owner operated businesses were still targeted.

[atatatat]

Right.

But they don't have a corporate policy against self-defense.

Of course people keep escalating shoplifting if it's known policy not to engage.

[gruez]

Sounds less like "the community [...] looking out for you" and more you using violence to protect your property.

[atatatat]

As opposed to the people trespassing into "my" store and physically removing "my" property?

(I'm not a shop owner)

[new_realist]

That was 30 years ago in another city. The rioters are 50 years old now.