Is Political Sign Stealing A Gateway Political Crime?

  I know for sure who didn't steal the Democratic leaning signs on our property near the Oracle Post Office. 

   I know it wasn't my friend referred to in the preceding post.  And it likely wasn't a Democrat or Independent (duh). So the disappearance and/or destruction of roughly 60% of Dem leaning signs around Otown was likely the work of Great American Patriots doing their patriotic duty for the other party.
  But nobody's head was bashed in with a hammer, nobody was screaming profanity and threatening violence, and nobody was assaulting the national capitol calling for the hanging of - take your pic - Mike Pence and/or Nancy Pelosi.  And nobody was calling for the hanging and rehanging of Barack Obama as an Oracle Freedom Loving Patriot did on line in 2014.  So what's a little petty criminal activity in our little Arizona town?
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  Here's what I think.  Sign stealing and/or defacing is a gateway political crime hardening the handful of perpetrators for bigger actions to come (just wait for 2024!). 
  An obvious response is tit-for-tat retaliation leading to inevitable escalation.

 Speaking of escalation, pictured is another Great American Patriot photographed while doing his patriotic duty around a Mesa ballot drop box.  He looks ready for action doesn't he?  No, this isn't a Halloween costume as far as I know, just a guy expressing himself anonymously by parading in front of voters who might choose to drop their ballots in turf he patrols.