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Afraid for your life if you were to confront the thief.

That reasonably covers pretty much all cases, especially in a state where lots of people have guns.



In other words: don't be an idiot and call the cops instead. That's what they are supposed to be for!


Texas cops? The ones that stop parents from saving their children during school shootings?


The Uvalde police department exhibited both cowardice and incompetence, but can we stop pretending they are representative of cops everywhere?

Just a year later during the mall shooting in Allen Texas, cops took down the white supremacist, neo-nazi perpetrator in under 5 minutes, probably saving at least a co couple dozen lives (he’d already killed 9). You can watch the bodycam footage from that event if there’s any doubt

https://youtu.be/LWvKT5fHa0U


> can we stop pretending they are representative of cops everywhere?

"Here's another outlier anecdote!"


Pro-cop 'hackers' was not on my bingo card.


> The Uvalde police department exhibited both cowardice and incompetence, but can we stop pretending they are representative of cops everywhere?

No. There is sufficient evidence supporting cowardice.


and the thieves got away




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