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granny power!

UPDATE: Stephen Green @ PJ Media has details:

It’s a small town of about 35,000 on the coast of Vancouver Island. The economy is about what you’d expect: Fishing, lumber, tourism, and brazen daylight shoplifting.

Wait, wut?

The shoplifting explosion in the U.S. has been in Democrat-run big cities, often with George Soros-sponsored District Attorneys who simply won’t prosecute so-called “lifestyle crimes” like shoplifting.

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We didn’t expect to see similarly brazen shoplifting in small-town Canada, yet here we are. Insanity Wrap’s first thought was why the unseen man taking the video wasn’t helping the tough granny, but then we realized he’s probably an employee and forbidden to do anything to stop these thieves.

Campbell River is also a very “progressive” town, so it wouldn’t surprise us if the official attitude towards crime was softer than the spring slush.

When a villainous government won’t enforce the law, it’s up to citizens to do it themselves — which itself is lawlessness of a non-villainous variety.

Insanity Wrap has long suspected that’s the Left’s goal: Encouraging a total breakdown of lawful behavior, of civil society.

We also suspect they won’t much like the results when the breakdown comes for them.

And from another part of the country, another sign that the tide’s turning, and the people are fed up:

Armed Gas Station Owner thwarts armed robber.

An Ohio gas station owner stopped a would-be robbery after he pulled out his own firearm and scared away the suspect earlier this month, authorities said.

Raj Patel, who owns a BP gas station in Mount Sterling, was forced to defend his business and potentially his life when police said the suspect entered the building with a firearm, WPTA reported.

"I just wanted to teach him the lesson that robbing and stealing are not OK," Patel told the outlet.

Okay, pretty standard story, but I love this part:

Patel said he was glad that he was able to help police nab Collins who is accused of being involved in at least two other robberies in another county, officials said.

"I love people and I love my customers," Patel told the outlet after defending the store. "It’s a great community. I came from another country, but they teach me everything I need to learn from here."

He didn’t learn it from reading the New York Times or watching The View, that’s for certain, and therein lies hope.