Family Dollar - Gun Free Zone - Now Being Targeted By Armed Robbers
So what happens when you tell employees, vendors, and customers that thou shall not bear arms inside their stores? They become a magnet for armed robberies.
Someone is about to get killed, and the blood will be on the hands of Family Dollar. I would absolutely avoid this store at all costs right now.
RE: Family Dollar - Gun Free Zone - Now Being Targeted By Armed Robbers
(02-25-2016 12:35 PM)UofMstateU Wrote: So what happens when you tell employees, vendors, and customers that thou shall not bear arms inside their stores? They become a magnet for armed robberies.
Someone is about to get killed, and the blood will be on the hands of Family Dollar. I would absolutely avoid this store at all costs right now.
RE: Family Dollar - Gun Free Zone - Now Being Targeted By Armed Robbers
(02-25-2016 12:35 PM)UofMstateU Wrote: So what happens when you tell employees, vendors, and customers that thou shall not bear arms inside their stores? They become a magnet for armed robberies.
Someone is about to get killed, and the blood will be on the hands of Family Dollar. I would absolutely avoid this store at all costs right now.
Do you have any source data that backs up this assertion?
Most of what I've read says the opposite. In addition, most of the evidence I've seen says that the likelihood of a "good guy with a gun" stopping the armed robber is unlikely to be successful as well.
(This post was last modified: 02-25-2016 12:46 PM by Redwingtom.)
Quote:A man with a permit to carry a firearm fatally shot an armed would-be robber on a Brooklyn Park street, authorities said Tuesday.
The two men exchanged gunfire about 8:05 p.m. Monday in the 7500 block of Imperial Drive, police said. Officers arrived at the scene and found the man who was attempting the robbery on the ground.
The person targeted in the robbery has a valid permit to carry a handgun and was not arrested, said Deputy Police Chief Mark Bruley.
Officers recovered both guns at the scene as they continue to investigate the shooting. Police have not released the identities of the two involved in the confrontation.
Bruley said the man who died “goes back and forth between Brooklyn Park and Minneapolis. He’s an individual we’ve known from previous contact. He certainly hangs out around here,” he said, declining to explain further.
Quote:An armed man attempting to rob a neighborhood store was shot and killed by a customer who had a concealed carry license, Chicago police said Sunday.
A masked man, later identified as 55-year-old Reginald Gildersleeve, walked into the store and currency exchange about 7 p.m. Saturday on the city's southwest side, displayed a handgun and announced a robbery to an employee, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. The gunman next pointed his weapon at another employee and forced her to the back of the store.
The armed customer then fatally shot the man multiple times, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Gildersleeve was pronounced dead on the scene at 7:10 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office. He had an extensive criminal history, including prior arrests for robbery, the Sun-Times reported.
Quote:A concealed carry permit holder was praised for shooting an armed robbery suspect around 5 a.m. on October 10, thereby stopping the robbery of a Waffle House in Charleston, South Carolina.
One of the uniformed officers who responded to the 911 calls said, “It says something about firearms, for good people with firearms being in the right hands.”
According to The Post and Courier, police received “reports of an armed robbery and shots fired.” They arrived to find “the suspect had been shot.” Waffle House employees told police that an armed customer had stopped the robbery. One employee said, “He saved us, that’s what he did.”
The suspect was taken to Medical University Hospital in critical condition, and no other injuries were reported.
Quote:Henry Houston Mann spent 20 years in prison for a second-degree murder conviction stemming from a 1989 killing. The fact that his fingerprints are on file may have played into his decision to cover his fingers with tape when he tried to rob a Citizen's Bank in Warren about 4 p.m. Sept. 21.
Mann, 43, of Ypsilanti, might have made off with $9,380 in cash had it not been for a customer armed with a legal handgun. The customer, identified by The Macomb Daily as a 60-year-old retired autoworker, emptied his gun clip striking Mann multiple times.
Mann made it to the sidewalk before he collapsed, dropping the cash and his 9 mm Colt handgun.
Quote:Two robbery suspects were shot by an employee at a cell phone store in the Jeffrey Manor neighborhood on Chicago's South Side.
The T-Mobile store in the 2000-block of East 95th St. was left riddled with bullet holes. If not for the employee carrying a weapon with a concealed carry license, the manager of the store says he might be telling a different story.
"I think concealed carry is a great opportunity for managers, workers, employees to protect themselves in these cases. And our employee did a great job to protect themselves and the other employee," said Neil Tadros, store manager.
He says two men entered the store and acted like they were shopping for phones for a few minutes, then pulled out guns.
Quote:A good guy with a gun detained an armed robber until police arrived at a mall in Anchorage, Alaska last weekend.
According to Alaska Dispatch News, 18-year-old Yan Bangout walked into the Buckle Clothing Store at the 5th Avenue Mall on Sunday afternoon and attempted to steal about $1,200 in clothing. Police spokeswoman Anita Shell describes what happened next.
“Employees believed the man was attempting to conceal the clothing in a bag while in the fitting room and alerted mall security,” Shell wrote. “As the suspicious man left the store, he was confronted by mall security and a struggle ensued over the bag containing stolen goods. During the struggle, the suspect drew a gun from his waistband; however, a good Samaritan, also armed with a gun, stepped in and assisted security in taking the man into custody.”
Quote:A man with a permit to carry a firearm fatally shot an armed would-be robber on a Brooklyn Park street, authorities said Tuesday.
The two men exchanged gunfire about 8:05 p.m. Monday in the 7500 block of Imperial Drive, police said. Officers arrived at the scene and found the man who was attempting the robbery on the ground.
The person targeted in the robbery has a valid permit to carry a handgun and was not arrested, said Deputy Police Chief Mark Bruley.
Officers recovered both guns at the scene as they continue to investigate the shooting. Police have not released the identities of the two involved in the confrontation.
Bruley said the man who died “goes back and forth between Brooklyn Park and Minneapolis. He’s an individual we’ve known from previous contact. He certainly hangs out around here,” he said, declining to explain further.
Quote:An armed man attempting to rob a neighborhood store was shot and killed by a customer who had a concealed carry license, Chicago police said Sunday.
A masked man, later identified as 55-year-old Reginald Gildersleeve, walked into the store and currency exchange about 7 p.m. Saturday on the city's southwest side, displayed a handgun and announced a robbery to an employee, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. The gunman next pointed his weapon at another employee and forced her to the back of the store.
The armed customer then fatally shot the man multiple times, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Gildersleeve was pronounced dead on the scene at 7:10 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office. He had an extensive criminal history, including prior arrests for robbery, the Sun-Times reported.
Quote:A concealed carry permit holder was praised for shooting an armed robbery suspect around 5 a.m. on October 10, thereby stopping the robbery of a Waffle House in Charleston, South Carolina.
One of the uniformed officers who responded to the 911 calls said, “It says something about firearms, for good people with firearms being in the right hands.”
According to The Post and Courier, police received “reports of an armed robbery and shots fired.” They arrived to find “the suspect had been shot.” Waffle House employees told police that an armed customer had stopped the robbery. One employee said, “He saved us, that’s what he did.”
The suspect was taken to Medical University Hospital in critical condition, and no other injuries were reported.
Quote:Henry Houston Mann spent 20 years in prison for a second-degree murder conviction stemming from a 1989 killing. The fact that his fingerprints are on file may have played into his decision to cover his fingers with tape when he tried to rob a Citizen's Bank in Warren about 4 p.m. Sept. 21.
Mann, 43, of Ypsilanti, might have made off with $9,380 in cash had it not been for a customer armed with a legal handgun. The customer, identified by The Macomb Daily as a 60-year-old retired autoworker, emptied his gun clip striking Mann multiple times.
Mann made it to the sidewalk before he collapsed, dropping the cash and his 9 mm Colt handgun.
Quote:Two robbery suspects were shot by an employee at a cell phone store in the Jeffrey Manor neighborhood on Chicago's South Side.
The T-Mobile store in the 2000-block of East 95th St. was left riddled with bullet holes. If not for the employee carrying a weapon with a concealed carry license, the manager of the store says he might be telling a different story.
"I think concealed carry is a great opportunity for managers, workers, employees to protect themselves in these cases. And our employee did a great job to protect themselves and the other employee," said Neil Tadros, store manager.
He says two men entered the store and acted like they were shopping for phones for a few minutes, then pulled out guns.
Quote:A good guy with a gun detained an armed robber until police arrived at a mall in Anchorage, Alaska last weekend.
According to Alaska Dispatch News, 18-year-old Yan Bangout walked into the Buckle Clothing Store at the 5th Avenue Mall on Sunday afternoon and attempted to steal about $1,200 in clothing. Police spokeswoman Anita Shell describes what happened next.
“Employees believed the man was attempting to conceal the clothing in a bag while in the fitting room and alerted mall security,” Shell wrote. “As the suspicious man left the store, he was confronted by mall security and a struggle ensued over the bag containing stolen goods. During the struggle, the suspect drew a gun from his waistband; however, a good Samaritan, also armed with a gun, stepped in and assisted security in taking the man into custody.”
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Family Dollar - Gun Free Zone - Now Being Targeted By Armed Robbers
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