he believed what the store was doing “is within the confines of the law.”
This reads as "nobody told me 'no' yet so I must be doing nothing wro-" /gets sideswiped by the bus he wouldn't get out the way of because nobody told him to not stand in the middle of a road.
This reads as "nobody told me 'no' yet so I must be doing nothing wro-" /gets sideswiped by the bus he wouldn't get out the way of because nobody told him to not stand in the middle of a road.