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Why should an employee be discipline for their attempt to stop a shoplifter? Stealing is wrong no matter what is being taken, the person who is doing the “Right” course of action should never be punishes, the criminal should. There are too many corporations who are too quick to punish their employees than go after the thief.

Why should an employee be discipline for their attempt to stop a shoplifter?

I’m not saying they should. But I do understand the idea that trying to stop a thief from stealing a jacket might well make the company’s lawyers become a bit twitchy. But letting a thief go with a firearm is to my mind a completely different matter. Someone brazen enough to steal a firearm might well have plans for using it in an illegal and dangerous to others manner.

The store and its employees have a duty to stop the thief. At the very least (and I don’t know if this happened or not) a phone call to law enforcement with a detailed description of the their should have been made before he ever got to the front door.

My last firearm purchase was at Academy. As I recall, an employee from the firearms section escorted me to the front of the store where I paid for it and then saw me out the door.