McDonald's shafts one of their own!

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[Smokin' Joe]

How many restaurants are going to stay in business if their employees have a hand hovering near a gun when they are serving you a burger “just in case”? And thats what it would come down to, by logical extension.

Only if you invoke the first law of hyperbole: more is better.

You just got done telling me the guy was an unusual nutcase. You used the 1 in 1000 sort of number. Even 1 in 1000 nutcases do not cork off continuously, nor get stopped by a stranger from beating up their female companions in a public place, and get thrown out of the business.

There is no "logical extension" to be done.

[Vanders9]

I was referring to employees, not the nutcase.

[bert]

It should be obvious that the man doesn’t have $300 grand. Bankrupt and it will all go away

[Smokin' Joe]

If you carried a weapon regularly, you would know that while you may be more alert than the average person, you do not spend your time "with your hand hovering over your gun"--not unless you are in a situation which warrants it.

Most of the time police and armed security spend on the job, they are aware of the firearm they carry, generally are alert to threats, but they do not spend their time with their hand 'hovering over the gun' unless there ia a possible threat.

Of course, if you are in a situation which warrants that sort of alert level, it helps to have a weapon.

Without one, facing one, you are as helpless as the rest of the sheep.

The guy is a sheepdog, to further the analogy, and the nutcase a wolf.

Pity McDonald's pulled the sheepdog's teeth with their policies.

Moreso, it is a pity that the employee who kept order and defended someone being assaulted in one of their burger stores, a guy who worked there, is not being backed by the company, even though his actions would make people feel safer in the place (and more likely to come there).

Instead of 'Employee of the Month', he is getting thrown under the bus.

[Smokin' Joe]

The problem with having a constitution which gives everyone a god-given right to be armed is that it means just that - everyone has a right to carry guns, concerned citizens, careful gun-owners, patriots, nutters, pyschopaths, criminals, traitors.

Documented "nutters, psychopaths, criminals, and traitors" have lost their Second Amendment rights by virtue of their actions.

Part of the accepted punishment in our society is that they be denied the use of arms in general practice. That does not deny them the right to self defense, but it does place legal restraints on their right to go about armed, whether or not they acknowledge those restraints.

Ironically, the people who care least about the law are the ones the laws are allegedly made to constrain, while those who are inherently law-abiding are stuck living within the constraints the laws were intended to place on the scofflaws and the insane.

The liberals think that removing the right to be armed is going to solve the problem. It won’t.

Apparently they have trouble with the intent of the Bill of Rights.

It does not confer any rights on the people, it reserves existing rights to be free from Federal meddling. The rights do not come from government, they are ours, and even though our government can (unconstitutionally) refuse to acknowledge those rights, or infringe upon them, they exist nonetheless.

[bmwcyle]

I stopped going to McDonald’s about a year ago. I will never walk in again.

[tx_eggman]

A lot of people would have reacted exactly like Nigel did, others perhaps such as yourself, may have called 911.

You're referring to the cowards, right?

[rednesss]

Watch the video. John Wayne used to "beat up" women far worse than this. Just ask Maureen O'Hara after "The Quiet Man".

Here's a link to the surveillance video, it's about 38 seconds into the clip, http://arkansasmatters.com/content/fulltext/?cid=193131