[Grizzled Bear]

These convenience store shootings are just heartbreaking. Perhaps it’s time to require owners to put their clerks behind bullet-resistant glass.

Some have had those precautions for years.

Thirty years ago, the 24 hour gas stations and party stores had a chute installed in the face of the counter. You told the clerk what you wanted and you paid through a small basin under the security glass. After you paid, the clerk would put your items in the chute, lock their side and opened yours. Once you took your stuff they relocked your sides.

[Grizzled Bear]

That should be “...the 24 hour gas stations and party stores IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD...”