(08-25-2020 11:53 AM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote: I don't understand why the citizens don't start blowing these clowns away. Yankees.
Let me explain why.
If the people who own the shops opened fire upon the rioters, arsonists, and looters, they would be arrested and tried to determine if they committed a crime by using force to defend their property. Depending upon the country that case could be 3 years from being tried and they would have to post bond, and hire attorneys. Attorney's fees could easily be between 5,000 to 10,000 a month and payable until the court decision was rendered.
In the meantime all of their weapons would be confiscated and their homes would be searched. They would be identified by the press and they would be subject to further attacks by the organized gang of criminals that looted and burned the stores.
Meanwhile the thugs doing the looting and burning will likely not be identified by the press, will likely not have to post bond, and will only suffer the mark of an arrest on their record. Any attorney fees they may accrue will be paid by their corporate backers through their organizations set up in the name of BLM or ANTIFA.
So in short those being burned out and looted either suffer that total loss, or they put their homes and private savings at forfeiture to a corrupt legal system that exploits them while those with nothing to lose, many with jail time already, are supported by the damned State through free legal representation or 3 hots and cat back in jail, and that's if the corporations paying them through the organization responsible doesn't cover all of that expense and bail them out, if they are even placed in jail.
So to be short and sweet about it the storeowners are either going to be screwed out of their livelihood because insurance doesn't pay for acts of riot, or they could be arrested, imprisoned, and their entire estates made forfeit to court and legal fees.
This is why most Americans aren't standing up to the thugs. The legal system is already working against us, not the damned corporately paid criminals.