[hoosierham]

Most corporations absolutely forbid their employees from defending themselves or having anything that might be used as a weapon and say that any employee violating those policies will be teminated and prosecuted.

As long as we allow disarmament on the grounds that the corporation's private? property rights are more important than the natural right of self-defense clerks and other workers will be executed by vicious criminals.

I hope the family sues 7-11 for a $100 million and win.7-11 and others claim their rules provide a safe working enviroment as mandated by OSHA (which demands no-weapons rules in the workplace) when it is obvious such rules only make the poor worker a soft target while the corporate types enjoy the safety of their gated communities and guarded office buildings.

[HiTech RedNeck]

OSHA should be ousted!

[Hardastarboard]

I read once, several years ago, that being a convenience store clerk is more dangerous than being a police officer. Another point to make is that Southland Corporation, at one time and perhaps still, the owners of the 7-11 chain, had a policy of supporting gun control organizations. I stopped doing business with them for many years for that reason.

[craigster_nc]

Most corporations absolutely forbid their employees from defending themselves or having anything that might be used as a weapon and say that any employee violating those policies will be teminated and prosecuted.

And these same people would never work in their own stores without armed guards standing beside them.