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[tourproto]

geez, this country (and companies) can be so messed up sometimes...

Florida Academy Sports manager fired after tackling gun theft suspect

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[Mister Bisley]

Unbelievable. The crook also stole 5 boxes of ammo and two magazines. Just speculation, but I would think that he was planning on doing harm to others in addition to the person he was already going to kill. This gentleman possibly saved the lives of others and is a hero in my mind. I hope the outfit that fired him loses a ton of business.

 

[nammac]

Good deeds never go unpunished...

Perhaps the law should be changed to hold firearms dealers financially responsible when one of their stolen firearms are used in a crime or murder...

Why not, the progressives want to do this to individual owners, why not dealers too...

 

[ma96782]

Just a guess but......

The liberal Left will next add a requirement that all stores that sell firearms will be required to provide armed guards to prevet the theft of firearms. Of course like the employees of the store, those guards will be prohibited from touching customers while they are within the store.

Make sense?

Aloha, Mark

 

[billdeserthills]

geez, this country (and companies) can be so messed up sometimes...

Florida Academy Sports manager fired after tackling gun theft suspect

Unbelievable treatment by the store, after heroic action taken by their manager--I hope he sues them good for wrongful termination

Good news is this hero will likely be offered a much better job & very soon too

 

[KKG]

I wonder what the store policy would have been if the manager had been armed and stopped the dirt bag using the gun???

 

[Diamondback]

I wonder what the store policy would have been if the manager had been armed and stopped the dirt bag using the gun???

Same thing.

 

[KKG]

Same thing.

So that's the store policy You have written?

 

[Diamondback]

So that's the store policy You have written?

No, just knowing the typical corporate Bend Over & Grab Ankles, NEVER Resist attitude imposed by the ambulance-chasers and insurance policies.

 

[KKG]

No, just knowing the typical corporate Bend Over & Grab Ankles, NEVER Resist attitude imposed by the ambulance-chasers and insurance policies.

Well, you sure sound like you were there making the policy. Now your saying you don't know anything.

 

[Diamondback]

I *was* a Business Major, and I know what the suits are taught from Day One of Business 101 class. Some places deviate from the norm, but the next employee-carry-friendly Big Box I see will be the first.

Frankly, I think this firing is complete bulls**t and shouldn't have happened--I'm not defending it, in fact Academy just got on my Blacklist over it. As far as I'm concerned, preventing theft of a deadly weapon is about the only "property crime" other than Arson of Occupied Structure that warrants a deadly-force defense...

 

[LuckySG]

I *was* a Business Major, and I know what the suits are taught from Day One of Business 101 class. Some places deviate from the norm, but the next employee-carry-friendly Big Box I see will be the first.

Frankly, I think this firing is complete bulls**t and shouldn't have happened--I'm not defending it, in fact Academy just got on my Blacklist over it. As far as I'm concerned, preventing theft of a deadly weapon is about the only "property crime" other than Arson of Occupied Structure that warrants a deadly-force defense...

I will give you an Amen for that. I am not surprised this came from Academy, they never could get me an ammo order correct.

 

[11Charlie]

My question is why wasn't the employee of a gun store carrying to begin with? Knowing that something like this could happen as a gun shop owner or manager wouldn't you want to protect your investment and or your life from some dirt bag?

 

[Diamondback]

My question is why wasn't the employee of a gun store carrying to begin with? Knowing that something like this could happen as a gun shop owner or manager wouldn't you want to protect your investment and or your life from some dirt bag?

Because Academy isn't a GUN shop, they're a Big Box sporting-goods store that happens to have an Elmer Toys counter for the Fuddsports. Think a less blatant, less syphilitic version of Dicks.

 

[11Charlie]

Dicks.

Well that says it all.

 

[Diamondback]

IIRC Academy once did the same kind of Virtue Signaling BS... then backed off after it bit 'em in the arse.

 

[billdeserthills]

No, just knowing the typical corporate Bend Over & Grab Ankles, NEVER Resist attitude imposed by the ambulance-chasers and insurance policies.

Seems like those pizza delivery folks have been fired before for using their gun

 

[Diamondback]

Seems like those pizza delivery folks have been fired before for using their gun

And most of the of-age pizza delivery folks I know, even the girls, either pack-against-policy or Buddy System with somebody who does. "This job ain't worth my life..."

 

[Bones2586]

Won't be long before Academy folds, even without the negative attention this article is sure to bring them. Prices are high for darn near everything they carry, sans the firearms. Decent gun prices bring some of their customers in, in turn leaving with overpriced ammo and related accessories.

On a side note, was in the local Academy over the weekend, had to walk out shaking my head when listening to the young man behind the gun counter speaking (not too intelligently), comparing a Kimber to a Sig, to an older lady who was looking to buy her "first" gun...my son and I just rolled eyes and walked away...ugh!

edit: Manager is a HERO in my book! Need more of them!

 

[WasrNwarpaint]

its democrats just doing the right thing...... helping the poor break the laws while they impose more laws on law abiding citizens

brilliant fire the guy doing the right thing, "make the news for the insanity" and all the petty thieves show up and can smash, grab & run in broad daylight knowing the store policy of let them go ...kinda hope the thieves do show up in droves



I would love to see an inventory taken today and again in 3-4 months