Lawmakers in Philadelphia have recently voted, 14-3, to pass Bill 170963 which seeks to crackdown on “Stop-N-Go” shops (also known as “beer delis”) by seeking to create new restaurant licenses for business establishments with fewer than 30 seats. Because 29 seats just doesn't cut it.
The new changes are looking to limit what they can sell and what sort of business they can do, among other changes including what looks like an attempt to ban the use of bulletproof glass in the city for some businesses.
The original sponsor of the bill, city councilwoman Cindy Bass, has previously suggested that having people reach through or communicate through bulletproof glass promotes indignity.
However, many store owners have fired back against the proposed changes and alleged that using bulletproof glass at their business has helped to save their life and protect them in the workplace. Some of them can remember back to specific instances where they were threatened and told that something violent would have happened to them if the glass wasn't in place to protect them.
As well, no one is forcing people to go into those businesses and seek out an exchange. In the mind of some of the business owners then, if someone doesn't like dealing with the bulletproof glass then they always do have the freedom and the option available to them to go elsewhere.
Some critics of the changes have pointed out that this sort of restriction on bulletproof glass appears to violate the Pennsylvania Bill of Rights which ensures the right of the people to defend their life, liberty, and property.
As far as crime goes in Philadelphia, they are allegedly above the national average and their murder rate this year is allegedly up roughly 20 percent; though there is a downward crime trend that's been reported over the past few years. At the moment, they are currently seeing lower crime rates than they have seen in decades.
When it comes to the murder rate seeing an uptick, police have said that one of the biggest motives behind that increase in the murder rate is arguments between people.
The Philadelphia city council's Public Health and Human Services Committee are the ones who are responsible for passing the new bill. And the hope is that the new changes are going to clean up the corners where these beer deli's are located. But is requiring new licenses and removing bulletproof glass really going to resolve addiction and loitering issues in the community?
For right now, the changes are going to be left up to the Department of Licenses and Inspection and they could decide on the bulletproof glass (whether or not to outright ban it etc) anytime between now and January 2021.
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Max Marin via Philly Weekly /philadelphiaweekly.com/news/booze-blacks-bulletproof-glass-did-city-council-botch-approach-to/article_b111c7c8-e501-11e7-a170-ff8d2ea6a42c.html
Sources:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/12/07/outrage-as-philly-pushes-through-ban-on-bulletproof-glass-in-crime-plagued-neighborhood-shops.html
https://www.metro.us/news/local-news/philadelphia/bulletproof-glass-small-philly-stores-debated-council
http://reason.com/blog/2017/12/15/philly-votes-to-regulate-bulletproof-gla
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/27600-philadelphia-city-council-takes-a-shot-at-small-stores-bulletproof-glass
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20170112_Police__Philly_crime_at_lowest_level_in_decades.html
http://reason.com/volokh/2017/12/20/right-to-install-bulletproof-glass
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Philadelphia-Murder-Rates-Up-20-Percent-419292894.html
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/12/01/philadelphia-business-owners-cry-foul-at-bill-targeting-bulletproof-glass.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/city-council-approves-bill-that-could-force-businesses-to-remove-bulletproof-glass/vp-BBGRdco
What a ridiculous bill to try and pass! They're fucking idiots, and their reasoning is that 'it promotes indignity', what a joke! I'd love to see any protection they enjoy taken away, they wouldn't have that though would they, pricks!
DEAR GOV STOP flighting middle class people !!
Let them live .
Are they not allowed to work in a safe environment , because as u may know crimes are only going up !
Violance on TV , racism , the trump administration are only rising this insanity and destroying our wonderful country .
Please focus on making free university and better education to stop this insanity from yhe roots , that's what u should consider instead of this .
Scary stuff. We need this glass. I had a couple friends robbed and almost stabbed when I was a kid and we were all working at a gas station.
Everyone has the right to be safe at work.
Wonderful topic
Yet another example of busybodies, yes I mean the government, interfering with the economy under the pretext of 'help'. It's amazing how the tail is twisting the dog these days.
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Another example of government ineptitude.
once again "lawmakers" are waaay off track! Maybe they should stick to Natural Law - I don't see where customers are being stolen from - if they "feel" it is undignified to talk through bullet-proof glass - then let them shop somewhere ELSE - give me a BREAK - this sounds like the mind controllers want to be able to shoot up the place if they want to - really??? There is NO authority other than Natural Law and the Creator.
Good grief! Let the proposers of this bill do an apprenticeship of several weeks working in one of these places and see if they still promote such idiotecy!
Thank you for this evidence that Marxists are just plain stupid.
Let the council deliberate in the places they have voted to make less safe, availed only of the security they have allowed shopkeepers.
I reckon this principle applied across the entirety of regulatory effect would dramatically reduce such absurdity.
This is ridiculous and goes to show that government does not care about the safety and well being of it's citizens.
It's a shame what types of changes were living through.. silly politics :/ wasteful energy. Thankyou for being political and posting content like this. hopefully we can change the world one post at a time. for me, i try to do it through my songwriting. Lets do it together!