LOL. Shorting is one of the few market actions that helps keep executives honest. Otherwise there'd be practically no incentive to sniff out the bad actors.
>>I'm also in favor of doing away with short selling.
The Mm's can, will and have mis coded short sales as long sales in order to avoid showing FTDs. Citadel was caught doing this several times and said it was a coding error and fined. The last time there were fined only $7M after getting caught doing this for several years (How does this go undetected for years- coding error = BS!!)) and miscoded millions of orders and billions of shares....Google it...Wes talked about this in one of his videos.