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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;masterswimmer, post: 7336854, member: 102022&quot;]You just keep trying to pass the responsibility of keeping safe off to others, primarily the police. And I&#039;ll repeat this once again, it is not the responsibility of the police to keep the citizens safe. It is your responsibility to do that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Make no mistake about it. I do not under any circumstance condone burglary. However, it is a fact of life. It will happen. Therefore it is up to each and every one of us to take all necessary precautions to safeguard our valuables.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hanging those beautiful notes on the wall is advertising to any person able to glimpse in the huge windows right there, or maintenance workers or delivery people invited in, or guests, that there are valuables readily available for someone with malicious intent to come and steal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is it right? Obviously no!</p><p>Is it moral? Come on, we all know it isn&#039;t.</p><p>Is it illegal? Goes without saying.</p><p><br /></p><p>The point is, our prison systems are full (until the new norm of catch and release) of criminals that ignore the law, have no morals, and definitely have the cajones to break in to homes and steal whatever is really available.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just because someone has a Fort Knox size gold bar that they&#039;re proud of, I doubt they&#039;d leave it on display to enjoy it and show it off. The same goes for the currency displayed by the victim in the first post.</p><p><br /></p><p>Would every law abiding, moralistic person like to be able to have the freedom to do what you believe is exercising their right to free will and liberty by doing just what the victim did? Of course we do. It&#039;s just not the prudent thing to do. If all these victims did everything they could to thwart the crime, without putting any blame on the police I&#039;d have a lot more compassion for them. When someone continually says it&#039;s the responsibility of the police to protect them I don&#039;t have much compassion for them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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