Posted on 09/29/2010 4:58:01 AM PDT by marktwain
Wallace was convicted of breaking and entering and larceny in 2006. He was fined and given three years probation. In May, he was convicted of carrying a concealed gun and given another year of probation.
The criminal ‘justice’ system has this man’s blood on their hands. Had he been in jail for the above crimes, he would be alive today...
He sure did. It’s tough to put myself in the same position, but I bet I’d have drawn the moment I felt my life in danger, not minutes down the line with beating after beating.
Which is, of course, why us Pennsylvanianers need to put pressure on our reps to pass HR 40 (Stand your Ground), which only last night was guaranteed a vote next week!
Hats off to the deliveryman for shooting these thugs. I am relieved that he did in fact have a concealed carry permit. The first reports were sketchy at best, but this actually gives his age and background.
Too bad the newspaper cannot proofread any better, there are a couple of silly errors in the story.
Glock 22...40 cal. No substitute for firepower when the chips are down.
Give him a medal, job well done.
And, most likely, he would have exited jail a bigger, stronger, more determined criminal than when he went in. People like this, willing to rob, assault and kill with little or no concern for their own fate, cannot be rehabilitated. This episode is a great example of why an armed society is a polite society. The problem is there aren't enough people with CC permits to make thugs like these two consider their own mortality when they decide to pull something like this. This delivery driver is a hero in my book.
Good reason to never go to Pizza Hut. I just may send them a nice friendly email today and tell them I won’t be buying their pizza ever again because of their no-guns policy for employees.
Job well done indeed, and now he will need a new job. Pizza Hut will fire him for having the gun that saved two lives.
I haven’t bought a pie from the Hut in years because of it, and will not until the publicly change the policy.
Job well done indeed, and now he will need a new job. Pizza Hut will fire him for having the gun that saved two lives.
I haven’t bought a pie from the Hut in years because of it, and will not until they publicly change the policy.
Sorry about the double. Minor spell error, thought I caught it.
Any employee fired for violating a companies policy prohibiting self defense should seek a class action law suit against the company. While I normally detest most “class action” suits, there is and has been an organized campaign by anti gun groups to convince businesses that they need to disarm all their employees. If you prevent me from protecting myself on your premises, then you become 100% liable to provide protection, and any failure should be actionable.
In the same boat here and will start a campaign in my local area to tell as many people as I can. Does anybody have an actual written policy statement to this effect with a Pizza Hut logo and executive signature on it?
Somehow for the sake of the rest of society, I think his not being alive today is the best outcome. Some people just plain need killin'.
I feel the exact same way about gubmint. States and/or cities that don't allow CC or make it prohibitively difficult to obtain should be held 100% accountable to provide protection 100% of the time. If they fail and someone gets hurt or killed because they were denied the right to self defense the state or city should be held 100% liable for all loss incurred.
I've always wondered as to why the government wants us to be victims. I have two theories:
My prayers for he and his family as they go through a horrible time, but by every fact this was a totally justified shoot and may have saved the lives of him and his manager.
I find it interesting that the manager went across the street to get a drink after closing. Doesn’t Pizza Hut serve beverages? I smell an accomplice.
Yep. The recidivism rate is pretty high for violent criminals. Jail time doesn't seem to matter to them. When they do wind up in jail they usually come out bigger, stronger and more determined criminals than when they went in. The way to curb a lot of this seems to be two fold. One would be to return to prison farms where the inmates labor 12 hours a day, six days a week. No TV, no bulking up, no time to plan and organize new crimes with other criminals. The other would be for more of society to be armed. The only person a criminal is worried about is themselves. You make punishment so harsh they will walk the straight and narrow. If not, they know full well that they are taking their very lives into their own hands. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
That thought crossed my mind, too.
I vote for both.
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