Put the t-bone down and place your hands behind your back.

[Jolly]

https://www.newsmax.com/us/hy-vee-armed-guards-retail-theft-grocers/2021/12/31/id/1050560/

[Aqua Letifer]

Pretty natural response.

[jon-nyc]

@aqua-letifer said in Put the t-bone down and place your hands behind your back.:

Pretty natural response.

Unclear at best. The article states it’s not a response to any specific incidents, rather to events taking place across the country. Are they really at risk? Or is the equivalent of Muncie, Indiana applying for Federal anti-terrorist funding in 2002?

[Jolly]

It says in response to retail theft.

[jon-nyc]

@jolly said in Put the t-bone down and place your hands behind your back.:

It says in response to retail theft across the country.

No doubt the mayor of Muncie, IN was responding to terrorist attacks across the country too.

[Aqua Letifer]

@jon-nyc said in Put the t-bone down and place your hands behind your back.:

@aqua-letifer said in Put the t-bone down and place your hands behind your back.:

Pretty natural response.

Unclear at best. The article states it’s not a response to any specific incidents, rather to events taking place across the country.

That's what I'm saying. The folks who make these kinds of decisions have been reading the news and decided to respond in this way.

[Horace]

if it's PR to get shoppers in their stores, more power to them and I hope it works. If it's not PR and it's to prevent retail theft, more power to them and I hope it works.

[jon-nyc]

@aqua-letifer said in Put the t-bone down and place your hands behind your back.:

@jon-nyc said in Put the t-bone down and place your hands behind your back.:

@aqua-letifer said in Put the t-bone down and place your hands behind your back.:

Pretty natural response.

Unclear at best. The article states it’s not a response to any specific incidents, rather to events taking place across the country.

That's what I'm saying. The folks who make these kinds of decisions have been reading the news and decided to respond in this way.

Right, but is it really warranted? Again, the mayor of Muncie surely saw the footage of the plane hitting the south tower and the pentagon burning. That didn’t mean Al Qaeda was going to target his town hall.

[Aqua Letifer]

@jon-nyc said in Put the t-bone down and place your hands behind your back.:

@aqua-letifer said in Put the t-bone down and place your hands behind your back.:

@jon-nyc said in Put the t-bone down and place your hands behind your back.:

@aqua-letifer said in Put the t-bone down and place your hands behind your back.:

Pretty natural response.

Unclear at best. The article states it’s not a response to any specific incidents, rather to events taking place across the country.

That's what I'm saying. The folks who make these kinds of decisions have been reading the news and decided to respond in this way.

Right, but is it really warranted? Again, the mayor of Muncie surely saw the footage of the plane hitting the south tower and the pentagon burning. That didn’t mean Al Qaeda was going to target his town hall.

• In 2020, gun and ammo sales exploded in plenty of areas that never experienced a riot or any unrest whatsoever.
• Also, 2020 toilet paper, masks, sanitizer, bottled water, ventilators, etc., etc.

How do you calibrate the idea of "warranted"? Compared against a reasonable response, or against who Americans are?

[jon-nyc]

Like I said in my first post, unclear.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in Put the t-bone down and place your hands behind your back.:

@aqua-letifer said in Put the t-bone down and place your hands behind your back.:

Pretty natural response.

Unclear at best. The article states it’s not a response to any specific incidents, rather to events taking place across the country. Are they really at risk? Or is the equivalent of Muncie, Indiana applying for Federal anti-terrorist funding in 2002?

You know, that's so esoteric it makes no sense.