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Wage theft doesn’t create the same kind of fear as someone shoving a gun in your face and taking your property.

Nobody is shoving a gun in people's faces in these stories about retail crime. People are just taking stuff off shelves and not paying for it.

I don't know about you, but I'm way more afraid of falling homeless and into that spiral of despair than any possible person with a gun.

> I'm way more afraid of falling homeless and into that spiral of despair than any possible person with a gun.

Said the person who's clearly never had a gun pulled on them.

trauma's no fun. I'm grateful I've never had that happen to me. have you? how was it? how did you process it?

Called the cops, described gunman and weapon, replaced the watch he got. Continued to walk late at night, tried to woolgather less.