It’s interesting most of the stores closing are on the west coast.

No stores to the best of my knowledge are closing in New York, Massachusetts or any of the other New England states.

I’m glad employees have the opportunity to transfer to other stores.

I don’t know the reason’s they’re closing places. Could be union related, safety related, or otherwise, but I can see it being money related. In every city you’re going to have bad areas. I can’t see a Starbucks doing too well if they are there. It’s like putting a Ruth’s Chris steak house in the middle of Irvington NJ, it’s not going to survive. But Starbucks isn’t going to say these bums in our area don’t want to pay for our product.

They are Texas cities. You didn’t see a summer of love here. And even though crime is up, it is understood that you have a good chance of encountering an armed citizen or employee. Even for criminals discretion is often the better part of valor.

Also, Dallas may be progressive but the surrounding areas … especially Ft Worth … are not nearly so.

Every major city in Texas had protests summer of 2020.

Certainly criminals aren’t worried about good guys with guns… otherwise crime would not be increasing

Yeah our protests lasted a day or two, and the local authorities arrested anyone who became disorderly. Go ahead, try to compare Texas to the lib open sewers on the coasts.

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I think we can all agree, prog cities are cringe.

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:rofl: Riots?

My local authorities in Los Angeles arrested anyone caught breaking the law too. Your point?

And then your woke moron DA cuts them loose. Stop playin’

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Some things are just self evident, like rain being wet.

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Your local authorities coddle criminals and encourage crime in the name of equity. Our local authorities arrest criminals and all of our local TV channels shine a bright light on any judge or prosecutor acting like your agencies do.

Doesn’t seem like the guns in Texas, nor its higher incarceration rate, is making a difference.

A tale of two states: Contrasting economic policy in California and Texas | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR).

“…lib open sewers on the coasts.”

Not denying I can be liberal on a few issues, or living in a liberal majority state.

However, we weren’t living somewhere rioters were tearing the place down.

They seem to just hang up their signs and actually honor the words peacefully protesting and go home.

You say that like you’re proud of it.

As usual you miss the point. While we have seen some crime increase, our reality is that we don’t have any city where the crime has gotten so out of control that retailers are closing to protect their employees. Our police are responsive, and our citizens are armed, and willing, the protect themselves until our police arrive. And the criminals in Texas know this. In each of the places losing stores, the administrations tie the hands of their police, do everything they can to disarm the law abiding citizens, and the criminals there are well aware of both. Proof is in the outcomes, we aren’t losing stores.

The cities losing the stores have soft on crime administrations, revolving door bail and charging policies and discourage their citizens from protecting themselves. Their police departments have essentially abandoned sectors of the city to the criminals, who now defacto rule those portions of the jurisdiction. Your city might not be there yet, but if the administration of your city acts like the administration in the places mentioned it will be. And we also have a lot more police agencies than most places. In a city here there will be the city police, district constable deputies, County Sheriffs Deputies, and if needed the DPS (State Troopers and the Texas Rangers). We don’t just expect law and order here, we demand it.

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Parts of Dallas weren’t burned to the ground like they were in Minneapolis.

That’s the difference.

My “city” is in the middle of nowhere;

We’re a pretty sleepy little town. Residents hang up their signs and go about their lives.

Neighboring Westborough & even in the capital police babysat protesters who just marched with their signs and headed home.

Here we are compare to the other 49 for crime:

Maybe CA being #14 compared to our 26 is a factor in more closures there?

These are municipalities losing the stores, not states. That is why I compared them to the major cities here in Texas. Even in the cities with the Texas version of a liberal administration, the type of criminal element encouraging policies won’t play. And as you well know, we don’t restrict our law abiding citizens from owning, or bearing arms.