Saturday, May 28, 2011

Barker's Pre-Vacation Newsbites: Saturday, May 28, 2011


Actually...

(*SHRUG*)

I'm going to Carolina in a plane!
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William R. Barker said...

http://biggovernment.com/jlott/2011/05/25/hero-gets-fired-for-using-a-gun-to-stop-robbery/

The police described it as an armed robbery and a hostage situation.

Before dawn on Sunday, May, 8th, two robbers stormed into a Benton Township, Michigan Walgreens store wearing masks and gloves and carrying guns.

Video cameras in the store on Napier Avenue in Benton Township captured the whole event.

Fortunately, though, Jeremy Hoven, a pharmacist and one of the employees in the store, had a permitted concealed handgun with him.

* WAIT FOR IT... WAIT FOR IT...

Walgreens fired Hoven for having a gun at work.

* SON OF A BITCH...!!! (*CURSING, SCREAMING, GNASHING MY TEETH*)

* AND WHY IN GOD'S NAME WOULD WALGREENS DO ANYTHING SO F--KING STUPID...?

* WAIT FOR IT... WAIT FOR IT...

Federal OSHA regulations forbid employers letting employees carry guns with them in the workplace.

* OSHA! YEAH... OSHA! THE FOLKS WHO ONCE UPON A TIME WORRIED ABOUT HARD HAT AND STEEL-TOED WORK BOOT REGULATION.

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

Police Lt. Delmar Lange thought that Hoven had done the right thing firing shots and forcing the robbers to flee. “Hoven could see the hostage situation developing. He could not retreat any farther. He was in the back room. If it was me, I would have done the same thing,” Lange told the Detroit Free-Press.

Lange thought that the video cameras clearly showed that Hoven had no alternative. The robbers were “very aggressive and very dangerous in what they did and how they did it.”

Other evidence also suggests that Hoven did the right thing. The National Crime Victimization Survey shows that defending oneself with a gun is by far the safest course of action when one is confronted by a robber. For example, people who protect themselves with a gun are injured in robberies about 8% of the time, but those who behave passively are injured by the criminals 24% of the time, a three times higher rate.

Yet, despite all the evidence about the benefits from owning guns for protection and the extremely law-abiding, problem free behavior of permit holders, the Federal OSHA regulations forbid employers letting employees carry guns with them in the workplace. [And] with President Obama running things, don’t expect the OSHA regulations to change anytime soon.

* OH... BUT GET THIS...

Customers with permitted concealed handguns are allowed to take their guns with them into Walgreens, but when this crime occurred there weren’t any customers in the store. Walgreens’ policy means that the only people with guns inside of their stores might very well be criminals.

* AND APPARENTLY THAT'S THE WAY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT LIKES IT, FOLKS! UNFRIGG'NBELIEVEABLE, HUH?!

May 28, 2011 at 10:27 AM

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