Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 09/28/2010 6:41:42 AM PDT by fightinJAG
Police say a North Carolina pizza restaurant worker being herded toward a cooler pulled a gun and shot and killed two robbers.
Multiple media outlets reported today that police were searching for a third man who got away from an east Charlotte Pizza Hut restaurant.
Authorities say the robbers burst through the restaurant's front door late Monday as two workers were cleaning up in the back.
Investigators say the suspects ordered the two employees into a walk-in cooler, then started beating one of the men. The other employee pulled a handgun and opened fire.
(Excerpt) Read more at hamptonroads.com ...
Something tells me that an employee working at a Pizza Hut was not carrying legally. Just a hunch.
I posted a link to a story at #12 that had facts similar to what you are pointing out here and the shooter was not charged. (The shooter was a customer, not an employee, though.)
This Marine was the only person eating in a Subway shop and a robbery developed. He had his handgun the whole time, but he waited through the robbers taking the money, to see if they would leave without trying to hurt anyone. But then the robbers started herding the employees into the back and threatening them. That’s when he opened fire and killed one robber and wounded the other.
BTW, I remember seeing the grandmother of the killed robber on tv, sobbing that “he was such a good boy, why did that man kill him.”
I wouldn’t be surprised. The shooter sounded like someone who knew what to do, when to do it and how to do it.
Maybe the employee was prepared and had two throw down guns?
I don’t see any reason to think that. Just me.
If they do fire the employee I think there should be a boycott called on Pizza Hut by a larger group like the NRA.
Even if we hurt their bottom line by only a point or two I think the more people know about this the more who will choose another pizza maker.
People are getting fed up with the coddling of these thugs, firing a guy for saving his own life is something a lot of people can see from their own point of view and will agree is wrong, especially men.
My first thought also.
Who will no doubt convince the families of the dead perps to sue Pizza Hut and the employee for wrongful death.
IIRC, in N.C., no permit required to carry at your place of business.
As a part time pizza delivery man for Domino’s, I have almost been robbed once. I am getting a CCW even though Domino’s bans guns.
It’s a stupid policy as they had a guy last year beaten to a pulp for less than $20 in change.
They will throw out the employee to avoid being sued. It is just a cold business calculation. They have a “no gun” policy for employees and that exists for no other reason than to protect their financial interests.
What an uplifting story....this is a good day!!!
I just love a happy ending.
That’s what it truly boils down to and it’s a shame it’s even a consideration.
“same. Employers are as8holes”
No, employers are not all ‘as8holes’. Insurance companies and lawyers force employers to fire employees in cases like this.
I’d rather be fired than dead.
“Something tells me that an employee working at a Pizza Hut was not carrying legally. Just a hunch.”
So? Do you consider having a license to exercise a Constitutional right to be acceptable?
I vaguely recall that story. I understand the position of companies who don’t want perps to act as though their clerks are armed, i.e., shoot the clerk on sight, but there is a growing sense of frustration by the general public that its rights for peaceful pursuit of happiness are being disregarded.
The “justice” system is skewing towards undeserved mercy so much that people no longer respect it. I was living in Utah many years ago when two whacked out airmen from Hill Air Force Base took over a music store (if memory serves). There were clerks and several customers there at the time. They not only murdered several of the victims, they raped, tortured and maimed them before killing some and letting others live. At least one victim, a youngster, was forced to drink caustic drain cleaner. He spent several years getting a new esophagus. Another victim had a pen kicked into his ear. A young woman was raped and forced to drink the drain cleaner before being shot to death. Those perps lived for nearly 20 years fighting the death penalty. And it seemed their main defense was they were black. (All the victims were white, by the way.)
At any rate, what seems to be therapeutic nicie-nice on the part of the “state” does little to assuage the inchoate rage in the general public. This rage is building and will someday erupt into something the “state” won’t hardly see coming. The theories behind punishment for crime include rehabilitation but also retribution, as a way of letting the victim or the survivors know the victim was valued also. We have lost the retribution part and we have jettisoned common sense from the justice system in applying mindless policies like severely limiting self-defense. It is part and parcel of why the general public no longer respects or trusts the government to do the right thing.
In Milwaukee, Pizza Delivery Driver shot and killed.
http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/45596527.html
As a manager for a store in a bad part of town for a large chain, I too had to deal with corporate “zero tolerance” on carrying. I would frequently see my security guys with sidearms tucked away. I would pretend not to notice, and then give them a polite “routine reminder” of the policy at my next opportunity. Could not blame them at all in that neighborhood. If one of them had fired in self defense though I am certain the brass would insisted on axing them.
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