Reply #16: the shoplifting rate has gone up BECAUSE

[sui generis]

the measure is the number of shoplifting violations per year.

We're also adding more stores as municipal and suburban populations grow, not just more cameras, so that's a useless statistic to quote.

Screw Franklin's quote, and I mean that. Nobody has the right to say what protections I do or do not deserve - and I don't consider my "essential liberties" to hold true in public.

I can shit on the coffee table in my living room if I like, but I can't do it in public. I can do many many things in the "privacy" of my own home that I "essentially" give up the freedom to do in public, and that doesn't make me any less deserving of liberty or safety.