Multiple mall shootings prompt Apple Store closure in North Carolina
The Northlake Mall Apple Store in Charlotte, North Carolina, has abruptly closed permanently after multiple shootings occurred in the mall in recent months. New store to open in 2024.
An Apple Store in a mall
Apple has two retail locations in Charlotte, North Carolina -- Northlake and SouthPark. The Northlake location shut its doors permanently on Wednesday afternoon, though Apple hasn't provided a direct reason.
According to a report from Bloomberg, the Northlake Mall has suffered from at least three shootings within recent months, which prompted Apple to close the store. It was an abrupt closure, as the website for the store didn't indicate a closure a day earlier.
A message on Apple's website for the store states that a new store will open in Charlotte in early 2024. Customers will need to use the SouthPark location or Apple Store Online until the new location opens.
The Northlake employees were told by Apple that no layoffs would occur, according to the report. They would be transferred to the SouthPark store or assume roles at the online store.
Read on AppleInsider
An Apple Store in a mall
Apple has two retail locations in Charlotte, North Carolina -- Northlake and SouthPark. The Northlake location shut its doors permanently on Wednesday afternoon, though Apple hasn't provided a direct reason.
According to a report from Bloomberg, the Northlake Mall has suffered from at least three shootings within recent months, which prompted Apple to close the store. It was an abrupt closure, as the website for the store didn't indicate a closure a day earlier.
A message on Apple's website for the store states that a new store will open in Charlotte in early 2024. Customers will need to use the SouthPark location or Apple Store Online until the new location opens.
The Northlake employees were told by Apple that no layoffs would occur, according to the report. They would be transferred to the SouthPark store or assume roles at the online store.
Read on AppleInsider
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nobody wants guns being sold like candy with no responsibility. Total micharacterization to pretend to have a point.
As for rights - if the right to privacy and pursuit of happiness can be curtailed for women when making decisions over their own bodies, then certainly we can put restrictions on the right to purchase firearms. As a gun owner myself I’m all for making popular killing machine rifles more heavily regulated.
That being said, violent crime has be on the decrease for decades. Hopefully legalization of silly drug prohibitions will help further.
Gun manufacturers through their lobbying arm are pursuing a national policy of encouraging conflict and selling to both sides. Gun regulation is becoming more lax for the express purpose of making sure more guns get into the hands of "bad guys." That way, fear and propaganda can be used to promote sales of guns to alleged "good guys." The manufacturers profit both ways! Shootings at Northlake Mall are bad business for Apple, but they're profitable for the gun industry!
The premise that regulating gun ownership means only criminals will have guns is propaganda and lazy logic. The same logic means there should be no laws of any kind, because laws only restrict the law-abiding, not the criminals. That's just dumb. Despite Antotin Scalia's judicial activist efforts to pretend it's not there, the words "well-regulated" exist in the first clause of the Second Amendment, stating the purpose for the language in the second clause of the same amendment. There is no constitutional basis for the gun-rights absolutism that makes us all less safe, and, as seen in the case of Northlake Mall, does damage not only to the victims of the violence, but to the basic stability necessary to conduct business in the community.
Some people in the West believe stupid things, yes, and other people in the West use sarcasm to point out those stupid things. Happily, at least so far, we're able to do both without being sent to "re-education camps" until we learn to only say the official things that we are told to say we believe, even if privately we know those beliefs to be stupid. This is apparently more of a problem in some Eastern cultures.