Armed crook enters Texas convenience store, demands money. But clerk is a concealed carrier — and gives crook painful 2nd Amendment lesson

As it should be -- https://www.theblaze.com/news/armed-crook-enters-texas-convenience-store-demands-money-but-clerk-is-a-concealed-carrier-and-gives-crook-painful-2nd-amendment-lesson?fbclid=IwAR1-WuSbxi7b473MDc9h4fEYr2BsOvHpK3r314ykv1T2FyvHaCFsai-3Rrw

Agree, as it should be.  Direct hit to the gonads would be useful.

Candy

Yeah, who needs law enforcement in a place where they give toddlers guns? Tay -ucks-ass. Yee-haw!

Every so often, something like this happens, and the manly man gun love gang has multiple orgasms. How much was in the register? $100? Is somebody getting shot a superior outcome to the store losing a few bucks? (I presume they had a drop safe.)

And the thing is...the foul miscreant being stopped in his tracks isn't the only possible outcome. The clerk shoots and misses. The robber is armed, and kills the clerk. Or a third uninvolved person is injured or killed. All to prevent someone from stealing $100. I don't think I'd ever love my employer enough to die--OR TO KILL--so that he doesn't lose a bunch of small bills.

So this wasn't a good or noble or heroic or even positive thing. And it has nothing to do with the Second Amendment, which grants citizens the right to form a militia. 

Owners of convenience stores tell their employees not to be heroes. This employee was a fucking idiot.

I'm sure Millerscum will vehemently and nastily disagree, but what he says or thinks doesn't matter.

   My observation - I envision the coming trend of people standing up for themselves when dealing with criminals. Three reasons why this will come to pass (1) the stupidity of the "Defund the Police" movement, (2) the gutless, paid off liberal city prosecutors not enforcing the law, and (3) the release of criminals who commit crimes almost immediately after being arrested ( New York is famous for this). Every one of these reasons are valid and a result of liberal policies. These bleeding heart liberals advocate for each and every one of these corrupt policies - until something criminal happens to them directly - then they cry about the police not doing their job. 

Oh, you were there, Kevin, and saw it all go down?

You've worked in a convenience store and faced with a gun toting miscreant?  That job was your second or third, maybe, with a family to feed?

Nobody can know for sure what would have happened.  I'm glad the clerk did what he did and I'm glad he wasn't hurt.  The store owner will probably suffer the most indignities, held accountable, sued by somebody associate with the crook looking for a nice pay day.  So it isn't a perfect outcome and nobody knows what would have happened.  Actions have consequences, both ways.

Candy  

I worked in a convenience store in high school. I was told to, if robbed, not resist and hand over the money. Never happened to me, though.

If that guy had a family to feed or whatever, he recklessly endangered himself by whippin' out his manly man gun instead of turning over the contents of the register. And quite frankly, I don't think armed robbery should be punished by death, extrajudicially, by ordinary citizens. That's why we have police and courts. The robbery was recorded on video. The robber would have been apprehended in short order, and would have gone to jail/prison--the appropriate outcome.

I doubt that even the most ardent gun love nut REALLY thinks that everybody packin' heat and blazing away at the slightest provocation is the way we should live. Towns in the 19th century forbade carrying firearms for that very reason. Texas has regressed.

Knowing that clerks are instructed not to resist but hand over the money surely emboldens desperados to commit robberies.  Easy money, or so it would seem.   But the bad guys are often, if not always, in a desperate frame of mind with drugs, etc. before going in.  Clerks have been shot/killed even when not resisting 'cause the crooks are certainly not thinking straight, weighing consequences, etc., and can be counted on to have no regard for humanity in that condition.

Candy     

 Speaking for myself, there should be a constitutional law of the land that if, in a criminal act a gun is brandished by the person committing a crime, that person is fair game to be shot. Of course the cry baby, bleeding heart liberals would throw a fit - well too bad - if one is stupid enough to commit a crime while brandishing a weapon, they deserve to be shot. Law abiding citizens have the right to protect themselves. Having such a law would greatly deter criminals from being criminals. Now, let the liberal whining begin....

How liberal of Kevin.  Just let them rob the place.  

So towns in the Old West that enforced laws against firearm possession were "liberal"??

And yes, let him rob the place. Call law enforcement. Rely on them to apprehend the robber. That's the civilized way.

A gun battle, which can lead to deaths or injuries (not just of the robber) is the uncivilized way.

I agree that liberal=civilzed.