Reason First: A Flare Gun Prompts a Robbery!

All it took was for a suspect to abscond with a few dollars in cash from a register. The unidentified man told the other man in the video to fork over money from a safe. When the employed man explained “I can’t open it,” the robber then brandished a flare gun to get the employees “on the ground.”

The man behind the counter was cool, calm, and collected. It appeared he’d been in situations like this before this incident. His even tone and understanding of surroundings aided in making him a defender of the store, while still preserving his own life.

Upon forceful demands, the store employee put in a code for the register to open after hesitating only but for a moment. The flare gunman waved the weapon again, and then proceeded to make off with as many dollars as the register had to offer.

This is just another example of our failed government school system. Why would a young man need to rob the local store if he knew how to code? If money had been generated for donations to fund private schools for underprivileged children, would these kinds of occurrences take place so often?

What are the best ways to curb and eliminate these incidents? It is up to the citizenry to understand local, state, and federal interference in the economy, especially the school system, is immoral. Now,there's no guarantee this young male would have done this with instruction on how to become a plumber, or a senior executive at a bank, but what would it be like to live in a fully free, laissez faire capitalist system?

How many crimes would go uncommitted because young people would be rationally selfish and trained to improve their lives as opposed to damaging or destroying them?

While it is almost impossible to even glimpse an America where such liberty would be widespread in reality, it is important to note there is a crop of students who disregard all ethics because they have been taught to be hedonistic thugs who do whatever “feels good.”

The young man with the flare gun had certainly had a string of misfortunes if he had to resort to robbery. He didn’t start his life that way. As a child, he may have been in all sorts of mischief, but “hitting a liq’” (knocking off a liquor store or some other similar establishment) was played out because of his alleged options. It is say alleged because other youths in his neighborhood refused to engage in criminality.

His way of dealing with reality differed from his fellow classmates who decided to become accountants and electricians. Other Men men and women decided to sell insurance to make a living. But this criminal chose to disrupt the balance embedded in the fabric of this nation.

He may get away with it…for now. Once he realizes he has committed a felony, he may either get caught and go to prison, or commit suicide.

Whatever the outcome of this man’s life, he will forever be a pariah. His twisted way of gaining cash for whatever reason will be a constant shadow, seeking to blot out the light of his potential.

To consider the idea that he could just Bogart his way past the counter, and disrupt the employee’s night, indicates hubris, not confidence, arrogance not self-esteem.

In all of the ways he could have been an employee at the store himself, he failed in every regard. The cold steel of justice should be wrapped around his wrists like Tiffany links. It is too late for him to avoid such infamy.