Five young men from Detroit are now facing criminal charges, and a juvenile suspect was placed in a youth home."Through the shop's window?" What kind of security is that? Shouldn't gun shops have better protection than that?
According to Livonia police, an officer was on patrol at 2:50 a.m. Oct. 4 — just a few hundred feet away from Shooters Service gun store at 29502 Six Mile Road — when the suspects crashed the van through the shop’s window. Once inside, they smashed display cases and began stealing long and short guns.
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"Through the shop's window?" What kind of security is that? Shouldn't gun shops have better protection than that?
ReplyDeleteYou didn't watch the video did you? Or look at the picture above?
Clearly that window is four feet above the ground and if you watched the video you'll notice that they didn't drive through the window, but drove into the wall, with a stolen automobile.
Don't rely on that article for too much of an accurate description. The writer referred to this burglary as a robbery.
Histrionic much?
The building was insecure. You read about this method of robbing gun shops fairly often. You never hear of it being done to rob a bank or a jewelry store. Gun shop owners need to be held responsible for securing their merchandise properly.
DeleteA business owner needs to be held responsible when a criminal steals from the store--Mikeb, if you ever hope to make any progress with Americans, you have to stop sympathizing with lowlifes.
DeleteIt's not sympathizing with lowlifes. It's holding gun shop owners responsible for security.
DeleteI believe the most responsible situation is to have ballistic "glass" (which really isn't glass at all) in all the windows and display cases. There isn't much you can do if thieves are willing to drive a 3000 pound battering ram through an exterior wall.
ReplyDeleteA determined thief can overcome any security measure. The real objective is to make the security measure good enough so that it takes a thief too long to overcome it. In other words the objective is that an alarm would alert people to a thief's entry and that those people would respond on site promptly before a thief could break into or simply cart away a display case, safe, etc.
It's what happens when gunloons get involved with anything; they always do it half-assed.
ReplyDeleteLook, a gun on the street is almost as good as cash. Everyone knows this. So, you'd think a business owner might protect something he knows is an attractive commodity to robbers?
Think about it. A big box store like BestBuy knows consumer electronics are attractive items to thieves--so they safeguard them. Same deal with pharmacies. Yet, gunshop gunloons don't seem to understand this simple concept.
Baby Goblin, you seem in good sympathy with thugs. What I can't figure out is why you don't understand good citizens.
DeleteGreggy: You mean "law-abiding" citizens?
DeleteLet me guess: both BestBuy and all pharmacies take all of their products off the shelves and lock them in safes every night at closing time. Then they haul everything back out in the morning and put it back on store shelves, correct? And all BestBuy stores and pharmacies have special reinforced concrete walls so criminals cannot drive 3000 pound battering rams through the walls, correct?
DeleteNo? That would cost too much money and take too much time?
Yes, Goldilocks,among other things, I do mean law-abiding.
DeleteAnon: Of course not. But places like BestBuy and phamacies do take measures like having retractable storefront gates, ballistic glass, reinforced walls and security barriers to deter all but the most determined robbers.
ReplyDeleteI'm certain stores like BestBuy and pharmacies do experience theft---but it's certainly not of the 'drive through a front window and help yourself' variety.
Jadegold... Sounds like a dyslexic stripper.
DeleteI can guarantee the Best Buy near me does not. I saw the building go up and it was pre-fab all the way. Ballistic glass? Security barriers? Please. Best Buys get robbed all the time. BBY is fighting for its life against AMZN et al. They spend as little as they can on some security cameras, alarms, and EAS.
DeleteJewelry stores put the merchandise in a safe at night. Gun shops usually leave it on display.
DeleteBanks put all the cash in a monster safe at night. Gun shops leave it right were it was during the day.
This story illustrates how criminals will pursue any and all avenues to get what they want. The problem with criminals is that they don't play by the rules -- whether those rules are simple manners, common courtesy, basic human decency, or laws.
ReplyDeleteThere will always be criminals whether of the back alley, white collar, or government variety. It is in each person's best interest to be as prepared as possible when criminals strike. That being the case, the last thing that makes any sense at all is passing laws that do not affect criminals while hampering a citizen's ability to defend themselves.
Gun control laws do not stop criminals from being criminals, any more than narcotics laws stop criminals from trafficking drugs. The only thing that actually stops criminals are armed citizens and law enforcement. The only problem is that a policeman is never around when you actually need one. That leaves the citizen to handle a criminal all by themselves until police arrive, which often takes over 10 minutes. Forcing a citizen to be unarmed when facing a criminal is downright sadistic. In fact I consider that "aiding and abetting" the criminal.