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QUESTION: Do you think all jewelry stores should have armed guards?
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No. The store should have a double doors where one door is locked before another door can be open; max two person per entry; limit the number of customers in the store.
Boycott these malls until they get serious about security. Otherwise one of these times it’s not going to be a glass case that gets smashed but one of the customers.
No, it’s an added expense that will be passed on to the consumer. In a liberal world, it’s easier to punish everybody than to punish the perpetrator. We see it in stores where items are under lock and key, forcing the customer to waste their time looking for an employee with the key.
It’s an added expense and an inconvenience that isn’t fair to honest law-abiding customers.
The smash and grab thefts that have been happening recently are a direct result of soft on crime Democrat officials and the voters that elected them. A better idea is for rigorous law enforcement, holding criminals accountable for their actions and ensuring harsher penalties.
These morons will ruin retail stores and we will all have to order everything online delivered to our doors only.
Don’t worry. With all the porch pirates, home delivery will be destroyed too.
And when retail is ruined, the bad guys will come to your door to commit their crimes.
It should be allowed to all that want to employ armed guards… but deterrence mentioned are good ideas – double doors (and allowing jewelry stores to use them without fear of charges of “kidnapping” or entrapment), limiting number of customers at a time… don’t have glass cases, but really need to prosecute to the full extent of the law instead of the revolving door DA’s provide
If I owned a jewelry store, I would, at least in this area. Though I see the evolution of this as the “rebellious yutes” eventually just coming in firing and the shop owners/guards being prosecuted.
The stores need to decide what security they want.
Let’s start by prosecuting criminals, even from small crimes. Community service for shop lifting may teach some that it is not worth it. The repeat offered then get jail time.
We wouldn’t need guards if we make jewelry stores like New York democrat mayor candidate Mamdani proposes to make everything free in stores. If groceries are free, surely jewelry must be free too because everyone deserves jewelry! Right? Oh the wonders of socialism!
Can’t believe people actually buy and wear jewelry that has any obvious value. Really just places a target on your back and marks out your home as a repository of things to be burgled. Ladies in our family tend to wear only the obviously costume-y stuff. Pearls basically a step above dried White Out, no resale value at all. Where there’s a need for guards, though, they do need to be armed and well-trained. All this activity at the malls needs to be stopped for sure.
As long as we continue to be so absolutely limp-wristed on dealing with criminals, I’m sad to say we just can’t have nice things (jewelry stores) in this state.
In the case of the Sun Valley robbery it’s a moot point because it was a kiosk in the middle of the mall. I have personally observed most high end jewelry stores already have Security Guards.
I think hammer proof display cases
would be my next move.
Don’t need some panicked
rent-a-cop cooking off
rounds in the mall.
Atticus:
Relative to your concern about rent-a-cops, several years ago, while browsing one of the large pawn shops in Reno, I noted all the employees wore shoulder holsters, and subsequently, I don’t recall ever hearing of a robbery of such a store in Reno.
If you work retail in this area, and don’t carry, sorry, you are a straight up fool!!!
Or if you work a register or handle cash, for your occupation, same as above.
No permit needed, we have the Second Amendment to thank for that,
PROTECT IT AT ALL COSTS, as if it were your child!!!
DO NOT RELY, ON SOMEONE ELSE TO PROTECT YOU, TAKE A FEW FIREARMS COURSES THAT INCLUDE CRITICAL THINKING, AND LIVE FIRE DRILLS, AND LEARN TO HANDLE AND CARE FOR YOUR WEAPON, RANGE TIME, RANGE TIME, RANGE TIME, YOUR LIFE DEPENDS UPON IT. JUST DO IT!!!
Duck,
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Almost all, if not all, retail chain stores won’t allow their employees to carry firearms while working or on any company property. The same is true for banks, credit unions, and most other cash handling businesses. Private property owners and public access private property owners can, do, and will continue to restrict the carrying of firearms on their property, just as Sun Valley Mall property owners do, as their rules clearly state when entering the mall. While you’re expressing pro 2nd Amendment rights, you’re also expressing nullification of private property and public access private property rights.
I also live by the rights of privacy, I don’t give a rip what local store owners post up as “their” rules. Why do you think these stores or places of work keep getting hit? The crooks know the rules that these stores have in place. Where I carry isn’t up to an employer, unless it is a bank or the airlines, and a few other places. My little buddy will be tucked away inside my waistband for 40+ yrs, or in a well mounted safe in my vehicle parked nearby. My self defense weapons have not once in 40+ yrs been drawn, there have been a few close calls but Thank God there were other ways to deescalate the situations, mainly, verbally, or retreating to safety.
I wouldn’t work for an employer that was opposed to people protecting themselves. I have a good friend that owns a 150 yr old family pharmacy in Stockton, I imagine Stockton was a nice place to live back then, well it’s not anymore. His store has been robbed at gun point multiple times in the past few years.
Now he has every employee take a self defense and firearms coarse before being hired. He also now has store owned long rifles and handguns behind counters and registers. That way his employees have the option to protect themselves and others in the store, not so much for protecting meds or store goods, because those can be replaced, a life can not be. The people that work for him know that the weapons are not to be touched unless it is a life or death situation.
Do what you have to do to protect yourself, myself I carry where and when I want to except for the areas I covered above, plus a few I left out such as Courts. What people seem to forget is the 2nd Amend. clearly states that these right will not be infringed.
I have friends that I have known since grade school to the present date, that have no idea that I even own a gun, let alone carry most of the time. I’ve spent many, many thousands of my hard earned cash to make sure that I have the best Safes money can buy installed in my home and vehicles. And twice the amount of money spent on self defense, and continued education, both classroom and range time. I don’t buy into the crap that the police or government or anyone else is going to protect myself or my loved ones.
Don’t be a fool, learn to protect what you hold dear to yourself, nobody is going to do it for you, or be there when stuff goes down.
Good luck.
Ducky.
The state should go back to an old west style justice system. That way criminals that will really be deterred. The current justice that’s in place, thanks to state’s government and their supporters, of supporting, coddling and encouraging criminals is not a good thing for honest law abiding citizens and businesses.