Then she at least thinks she has secured protection. She wouldn't risk it otherwise.
interesting possibility
1) Push to decriminalize shop lifting in blue states and subsequent reversal
2) EBT shutdown
3) EBT recipients threatening to steal shit
Possible pattern.
The perfect is the enemy of the better than nothing. Just my hot take.
California for one. Enacted minimum dollar value for prosecution.
It looks to me like a variation on what was done with the Stryker to protect against RPGs. That started if I recall with troopers strapping logs to the side, then developed into something very similar to what was shown.
Offense -Defense -> Offense -> Defense ->
Yes it was reclassified and then the (Soros supported) prosecutors said they weren't going to try the cases so the cops said if you aren't going to try them then we aren't going to bother responding. Which for all intents and purposes decriminalized it. Shop keepers were screaming for help which is why it got reversed by proposition.
Don't tell me how it played out in California, I lived it.
Most stores are small businesses which don't have any share holders or CEOs or boards.
I don't know what universe you are living in but it isn't this one.
Nor does any of your argument counter my original post.
Picking fly shit out of pepper as my grandfather used to say. My original observation stands.
As I said I know what happened because I lived it. All you are doing it showing that there is actual meat to my argument.