The Left is willing to explore any and all options to reducing crime -- including stripping you of your Second Amendment rights -- but they're never willing to do the one thing that works: put criminals behind bars.
In Jackson, MS, activists -- including Councilman Kenneth Stokes -- have decided the solution to crime in a neighborhood is to make a gas station owner shut down his business.
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NEW: Black activists in Jackson, Miss., are calling for a Texaco gas station to shut down because of the growing murders and crime in the area
— Unlimited L's (@unlimited_ls) July 29, 2024
Someone said “The owner should have the integrity of a human being for [himself] to say, we need to shut this down”
Councilman Kenneth… pic.twitter.com/2AdV7o4c0r
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Councilman Kenneth Stokes says he will bring a vote of no confidence against the city's legal department for not shutting down the gas station sooner
“Where people suffer harm or injury, it’s got to be considered a nuisance. How many people have to die here before they realize it’s harmful?” Councilman Stokes said.
This is the embodiment of the Left: punish the innocent. Perhaps the legal department hasn't shut down the gas station because it's not doing anything illegal.
The gas station owner is an innocent victim trying to provide goods and services to his community. This writer could see a justifiable argument for shutting down a business that was attracting crime -- like a bar or a strip club or a pawn shop -- but this is a gas station.
It's not the owner's fault criminals commit crimes.
Why doesn't Councilman Stokes hold a vote of no confidence in the DA for not prosecuting crimes? Or the police for not arresting criminals and patrolling the area?
They never take responsibility
— Washingtons ghost (@hartgoat) July 29, 2024
Never.
It's literally Councilman Stoke's job to protect the community. And the best he's got is to shut down businesses.
They do not understand cause/effect
— Just Posting Ls (@MomsPostingLs) July 29, 2024
They do not.
A man has to shut down his business because criminals are able to loiter and rob and murder people with impunity?
— Darth Crypto null af (@DefNotDarth) July 29, 2024
How about the police patrol the area and arrest and/or shoot the armed criminals tormenting the community?
Na. Let’s force a business to close instead. 🤯
As we mentioned above, Councilman Stokes told people to throw things at police going after criminals.
We’ve entered the last stage where the victim is to blame and not the criminal.
— Bleu Cheque (@VERBAL_CHANCLA) July 29, 2024
This is the equivalent of the 'If she wasn't wearing a short skirt' mentality.
They’re actually blaming the business for the crimes holy s**t man
— Digital Soldat (@DigitaISoldat) July 29, 2024
Realize where we are.
Come and take it. https://t.co/Z3pVsBZKOE pic.twitter.com/VlurBR3ytF
— Triggered Millennial. (@SlapLordActual) July 30, 2024
We hope the owner gets help fighting this.
They're blaming a gas station for an increase in murders and crime.
— T_p_tio 🎈 (@Txp_RBI_Xctuxl) July 29, 2024
Think about that for a second.
They have a violent crime problem in their neighborhood and they're blaming a gas station.
A gas station. https://t.co/xP2HzfbTLD pic.twitter.com/bqcc1blrxV
Which provides necessary goods and services to that community.
Today it's... **checks notes** ...the gas station's fault that murders and crime are happening.
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) July 30, 2024
Trust the science! https://t.co/HdM2TR3dK6
Much science. Major logic.
Gas stations don’t kill people. Armed criminals kill people. (Perhaps work within the community to shut down the latter?!) https://t.co/XPy6mZAp4p
— Amy Alkon (@amyalkon) July 30, 2024
But that would be racist and unfair. Or something.
Next thing you know they’ll be crying about a “food desert” or “racism contributes to lack of gas stations in the black community.” https://t.co/7AEGqJjwa1
— Kitler (@Kitler512) July 29, 2024
As predictable as the sun rising in the east.
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