We keep hearing about businesses closing shop in San Francisco. Whole Foods lasted one year before it decided that the crime problem was too much. So how about taking guns away from security guards, leaving them defenseless against armed criminals? The end game is probably to replace all security guards with social workers anyway.
Dean Preston, a democratic socialist, is behind the legislation:
Today, I’m announcing legislation to limit use of guns by security guards. We must amend local law to prohibit guards from drawing weapons just to protect property. Human life is more important than property. pic.twitter.com/A3KsOp8yTd
— Dean Preston (@DeanPreston) May 9, 2023
What is “property” anyway? It’s all insured, right?
I agree human life is more important than property, but everyone has the right to defend their property and their life. So here’s an idea… perhaps the criminals who steal other people’s property should place a higher value on their own lives, and stop doing crime?
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) May 9, 2023
I hope your legislation extends to disarming any security provided to government officials.
After all, your life isn't any more important than anyone else's, so why should you have an advantage over anyone else, including a potential attacker?
— Uncultured Purrl (@AmericanPurrl) May 9, 2023
You know armed guards save lives too, right? Or are you truly this stupid?
— Stacey (@ScotsFyre) May 9, 2023
People have the right to be secure in their persons and property. Lay the blame where it belongs: on the criminal. When a crime is being committed, you simply cannot assume that you are safe from the criminal, either.
— Mike Jones🤿🐊 (@MikemanCommeth) May 9, 2023
You must be a fan of having no businesses left in SF.
Your tax base is drying up. Deservedly so.
— Jeremy Redfern (@JeremyRedfernFL) May 9, 2023
How are they going to afford that $5 million a person in reparations?
How many takes did you have to do to get one where you weren’t robbed or accosted?
— Adam Neumanns Chief of Staff (@AdamNeumannsCoS) May 9, 2023
How are businesses supposed to protect their property? Serious question.
This will further enable criminals. There is never a justification for theft.
— often uncommon 👊 (@oftenuncommon) May 9, 2023
So people and business owners should just hand over their property to anyone who who wants it? How is this a solution to anything?
— Hepzibah_Splurge (@hepsplurge) May 9, 2023
Great! Why don’t you publish your home address and have one big “help yourself” party for all the thieves.
— Rhonda Q🇺🇸 (@RhondaQuade) May 9, 2023
Do you have any sort of plan to protect property or is all property in SF now considered communal?
— Scott G (@scttfrnks) May 9, 2023
Glad to know you continue to place a higher value on the lives of criminals than on the employees and citizens that are being violently threatened, harrassed, and attacked for simply trying to work at a low salary job or shop without threat of violence. You should resign.
— LukeYoungblood.eth 🛡️ (@LukeYoungblood) May 9, 2023
This ratio shows how much you’re going to lose by.
— Santa Cruz Mountain Goat 🏴 (@SCMountainGoat) May 9, 2023
Maybe machetes would be a better deterrent? We would also have to pass a law to keep criminals from bringing guns to their property crimes right?
— Don Elton (@delton) May 9, 2023
Oh god. Here’s a face of the problem folks.
— Rodney (@lordpetty_) May 9, 2023
Soon SF will be a retail desert with no big box stores, no grocery stores, no pharmacies. Another reason to leave the city more famous today for human feces and needles on its streets than its storied hills.
— Jorge E. Ravelo (@jeravelo) May 9, 2023
If a mass shooter decided to visit the store, it would be nice if the security guard had a gun.
San Francisco doesn’t prosecute anyone for shoplifting anyway, so yeah, security guards are useless.
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Related:
Security guard killed while protecting news crew covering a flash mob robbery in Oakland https://t.co/cWmyTkGNKg
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) November 27, 2021
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