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LoisB

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4. This is sad. It seems to me it would be "better" that people steal food from a store to

Reply to DBoon (Original post)

Wed Oct 29, 2025, 11:43 AM

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feed their hungry children than to snatch some old lady's purse to get money to spend in that store. How many "shoplifters" are going to end up shot by the police who are protecting the store?

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