Smash & Grab for the Holidays

With only 23 looting days until Christmas, brazen robbers are redoubling their efforts to steal holiday cheer- from this year and the next.

Photo by Gabe Pierce on Unsplash.

A series of smash-and-grab, flash-mob type robberies have resulted in shopping districts in major cities again boarding up shopfronts- just in time for the holidays.

This is, of course, terrible news for small businesses, corporations, shoppers, and just about everyone else.

The only people who like looting are criminals and journalists.

Since store owners did the same boarding-up routine after the murder of George Floyd last May, and again in anticipation of violence after the 2020 election, it is to be hoped that beleaguered merchants have at least been able to reuse the plywood.

“The social covenant has shattered,” lamented opinion writer Leonard Pitts Jr. this week for the Tampa Bay Times. Between mentioning, “breaking social norms,” and blaming Donald Trump, Pitts never mentioned, “breaking the law,” even once.

Members of the press, who largely tend to lean Democratic, are certainly anxious to lay all the problems the nation is currently facing at the feet of COVID-19, and preferably at the feet of the previous administration if possible. Rising inflation- the higher prices we are all seeing at the gas pump, in the grocery…