This video will make your day: Sikh immigrant shop owners teach thief a painful lesson

[Fuzzy Bear Loves Christian Missionaries]

Some of you guys aren't right in the head.

This irony? Looters and shoplifters who steal from hardworking people making an honest living deserve this treatment.

Nobody deserves this treatment.

Sure. But the store owner did not deserve to be robbed, and his rights trump the rights of the man robbing him. End of analysis.

This is what happens, and what will happen, when society stops considering one's property and one's ability to actually be safe in their homes.

When prosecutors refuse to prosecute theft of any amount, they are stating that property is a right that one can be deprived of, not by due process of law, but by the unpunished nonfeasance of a local prosecutor.  What possible deterrence would this thief have encountered if they had been properly restrained, then arrested, then allowed to bond out and be punished (in the end) by a probated sentence that did not compel the criminal to pay restitution, the cost of his prosecution, or other court costs, they consider themselves unpunished, and why should they not think that.

The cost of America of the BLM/Antifa riots is the loss of a meaningful right to property.  Mobs were allowed to loot and destroy property, with minimal effort to locate or punish wrongdoers.  The Woke Prosecutors are both the cause and the effect of the 2020 street riots (that were not peaceful; peaceful protests don't cause billions of dollars in damage).  This guy was just doing what he saw mobs doing in Target in Minneapolis, what he sees them do in convenience stores in Philadelphia now.  This man has no reason to think that the Government would protect the rights of these store franchise-holders.

You cannot have a civilized society without a meaningful right to property.  Meaningful means that people can't just take your stuff because they're the police, the government, or a member of a favored racial/ethnic group, or some other kind of favored demographic.  That sort of thing is what generated people leaving Europe (particularly Eastern Europe) for America in the 19th and early 20th century, and it is why people found America to be as wonderful as they found it.  That's part of Western Civilization, a concept that people will not fully appreciate until it's gone.  It's also a concept that many Eastern Civilizations are not exactly keen on. 

[Fuzzy Bear Loves Christian Missionaries]

How many of you think he should be allowed to walk free because of his beating?

Both men should go to jail.

Why should the business owner go to jail for defending his livelihood?

Self-defense applies to physical threats, not economic threats. The only justification for this was the thief threatened to pull a knife, not that he was stealing.

It is, however, a fair question to ask as to what sort of protection from this kind of blatant theft a person ought to have, and what sort of response to such blatant theft should be tolerated when someone comes in and blatantly helps himself to literally thousands of dollars word of inventory (which can be accumulated quickly if the their steals packs and cartons of cigarettes from a man's store),

If someone has the stones to rob you in this manner, why should it not be assumed that the person is armed with something that could be considered a weapon under state law, even if it were not a firearm?  If the person is unarmed, but is robbing someone who is conspicuously weaker, why would it be wrong for a stronger Good Samaritan to knock the guy out cold with his bare hands if possible, or use force to retrieve the property of a weaker person?  Let's not forget that "robbery" includes an element of force or threat of force that mere "theft" or "shoplifting" does not have. 

As to the issue of why people seemingly "enjoy" these videos:  Real people experience being victimized by criminals in this manner, only to receive no aid from police (who won't arrest) or prosecutors (who won't prosecute, which fuels the decision not to arrest).  Their view that THEIR rights to their property and their safety mean nothing to those that govern them have been reinforced tenfold by the Gascons and Braggs and Gardners and Foxxes and Krasners that have been elected as Prosecutors on the promise that they WON'T enforce the law.  These videos, to some, are heartening to people who have been systematically DISheartened by their elected leaders.  The only effective prevention against vigilantism is for public officials to enforce ALL the laws and protect ALL the rights of ALL law-abiding citizens.