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‘Just Give Them What They Want’ Advice Leaves Key Question Unanswered
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"With much of the attention focused on 'gun-free' military recruiting centers, a recent armed robbery and assault of a clerk in a Chevron station convenience store in Mesquite, Tex., reminds us there are plenty of higher-risk jobs where employees are on their own. This is the fourth robbery at this particularly outlet this year, Fox 4 Dallas-Fort Worth reports."
"'The clerk fought back, took the gun away from one of the suspects and shot him in the shoulder,' the report notes. And that doesn’t sit well, with those who wish we’d just take it lying down." ... |
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Millwright66
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| The reality of those with even a faint dusting of common sense, surrendering your life to someone doesn't offer much chance of survival in today's world is a given. This 'advice' might well have been appropriate some three decades's back when the criminal element had some fear of law enforcement. Today's citizen faces not only the drug-crazed, but the wannabe gang aspirant needing to 'make his bones' by 'busting caps' on their victim. |
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