I read the article.
I can see why the deputy pulled his weapon. I don’t condone it, but if some ass-clown shoved me, I’d get mad too.
But I would not pull a gun over it.
If some jerk got into my wife's face and started yelling at her in line at the Wal-Mart, I'd be wiping the floor with his face before he had time to pull a gun out.
And if he did get the gun out, he'd better kill me with the first shot, because after that I'd be inserting the bullets up his rectum, manually.
**...or if there is even a question that you have more than 20 items, hows about shufflin your butt over to the next lane with the conveyor belt and waiting your turn like all the rest of the large cart pushers. See that lane has a conveyor belt for a reason, it can hold 57 cans of best choice pinto beans no problem. The "speedy" checkout has a counter. A counter just large enough to hold 20 average items. So, when I am standing behind you in the "speedy" checkout with a package of batteries and your putting your 39th box of fishsticks on the counter, I start to scan the magazine rack looking for something that I can stab you with.**