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Apple Permanently Closes North Carolina Store After Multiple Shooting Incidents
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As a photographer, I was about to take offense at the term “manipulation” as well, (makes me think post processing,) but it’s not wrong. Changing the framing, distance, focal length, aperture, and shutter speed all manipulate the final photograph. For instance news outlets often choose tight framing to exaggerate a crowds’ size and wide framing to minimize its size.
However the original post would definitely have been clearer to say that it was a manipulative photo.
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From the UK looking in, guns at one thing we don’t have, we don’t need.
In NC guns sales have virtually doubled in the last six years, you have nearly 4 gun dealers for every one McDonald’s restaurant.
If you have people buying guns you must expect that they are going to use them. Perhaps the fault lies with your gun laws, not migrating people.
Not making sales is probably one of the bigger things but also keeping their employees safe, Apple stores is a high-value target due to the cost of the devices and the high and fast resell of them, and thieves/robbers may try to target an employee against their will to rob the store. The first Bestbuy I worked at which once was in a good area rapidly turned into a very high crime area, our sales started to slowly drop because people would go out of their way to go to our other stores in fear of getting mugged over what they just bought, it got to the point our store manager would have to hire off duty officers on the weekend nights to make sure customers got out safely. One night when we were closing and our manager was clearing the registers (We only had about 6 people working that night) someone forced their way into the store, pistol-whipped our AP guard and held up our manager, and took all the cash from the tills, he had 4 other of his buddies rush in and they stole a bunch of games and Xbox's and headphones. In all, they made out with around $50,000 worth of cash and merchandise. After that corporate decided to close our location down and we all got transferred to another store which is where I'm at today. I have to applaud Bestbuy for taking our safety seriously and not brushing it off. They now use that store as an outlet store that is only open a few hours a day and doesn't carry any high-end products, that whole area now has gotten so bad the city had to put a police substation in the plaza to help deter crime.
The US is a wild place. More shootings than days this year but mimimi „we have our right, the government is not supposed to control us for ANYTHING“. These amendments were written by some white dudes with a completely different mindset back in the day. Also rules are there to be changed or updated. NEXT
huh... I thought you were going to go with Apple needs to move to developing mental health productsUnfortunately this is the one of many now that the ice has been broken.
It's time for Apple to move from developing personal health and communication products to personal protection products.
Somebody has to do it it might as well be Apple.
If only there was less crime, and less guns. If only...
The second amendment is really delivering this year. Misery, death and decay that is.
LMAO at everyone in this thread pretending to be baffled as to the root cause.
have you registered your butter knife yet?
Why aren't shops spread in the town, so that one can _walk_ from one to another ?It's amazing how things look when you manipulate photos. Here's how it actually looks.
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It also just exists as a waypoint between places. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breezewood,_Pennsylvania
Republicans would just say: Give the Apple employees guns to fight back
Relocating somewhere there isn't going to be routine mass shootings?
Apple. Time to relocate to Australia. Sure, we have stores here already. Just bring the rest.
Apple. Time to relocate to Australia. Sure, we have stores here already. Just bring the rest.
Shame to see this. I used to love Charlotte growing up in the 60s and 70s, but it is not the same place anymore. Same goes for many major cities in the US. Every major city I lived in is a disaster now. Urban decay en masse. I fear this will not be the last time a store is closed for this reason, give it another 5 to 10 years and we will see more follow; though moving them is questionable at best since the problem is now covering a much larger scope.
Maybe instead, Apple could branch out into... into... I don't know, how do you stop crime? iPolice?Unfortunately this is the one of many now that the ice has been broken.
It's time for Apple to move from developing personal health and communication products to personal protection products.
Somebody has to do it it might as well be Apple.
I don't know... I really never pictured America as being such a lawless country til the past month or so, when I've finally started listening to all the folks saying they need a gun for personal protection. It's not something I can fathom... and I lived in one of the worst suburbs in Australia.
Americans at least have a perception that they will be a victim of crime that's twice as strong as that of Australians. And the figures pretty much back that up...
No idea how to remedy it... other than to point out that the disparity between the rich and the poor is massive in America, and when you have a lot of poor people, you'll have crime... (And that's not an attack on the poor, that's a very broken system; not much better here in Australia, with our own recent reports of business working to keep employees under paid...)
Republicans would just say: Give the Apple employees guns to fight back
Someone in these comments suggested exactly that...
That... that... is AMAZING! LOL
Just for the record... cos sure, come to Australia to get away from America's gun culture - you're welcome, and - the reality is - we only actually lose around 30 people pear year to animals of all kinds. That is MUCH better odds than 20,000 gun murders per year (and 20,000 suicides... though I accept that if you wanna kill yourself, you'll find a way...)
Oh and... the number one animal killer in Australia over the past 20 years? Horses. Then cows. Then dogs. Ok, then we get to Kangaroos... an average of 2 deaths per year from Kangaroos...
But the main thing here - men make up the vast majority of these deaths - 67%. Cos men are dumb.
At least the criminals are healthier.
That wasn't shootings - that was opressed peoples fighting systemic racism and demanding equity. If Apple donated more to BLM none og this would happen.
Crime has got worse in the US since around when the pandemic began. But the 90's was much worse, by pretty much any measure, by a large margin. Of course, that's taking the country as a whole. I'm sure you can pick out individual areas that don't match the overall trend.
ha in this current gun crazy world, I don't know if your being serious or not lol
I grew up in Florida I never remember crime being a issue like it is today. I went to school in the 90's and It felt safe where as today we do fortunately have to worry about school shootings.
We were allowed to go out all day and play with our friends and it felt safe. I wouldn't let my kids out to play like we did! as I genuinely think there are too many weirdos about.
having said that, I do believe the news and internet travels a lot faster than how we received it in the 90's so that might be why things felt safer to me. out of sight and out of mind