[marktwain]

These guys should be given awards. Our society has gone crazy.

[pnh102]

Blame our legal system... it is far too easy for criminals to sue people who defend themselves.

[pacpam]

Walmart needs to re-think it’s policies. Absolutes as policy never work. Ask the schools about molded plastic toy soldiers with guns.

[Nitehawk0325]

Fired or not fired, they did what is right. There's no telling what the shoplifter/gunman would have done if they didn't wrestle away the weapon from him. Walmart is my favorite store but they are in the wrong on this one.

[kbennkc]

Since when have you all started to believe KSL, the communication division of the Mormon church.

[sand lake bar]

Launch a boycott against that store. Pickets, protests, the whole shebang.

[JoeProBono]

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705366457/Utah-County-Walmart-employee-fired-after-intervening-in-employee-scuffle.html

[Defend Liberty]

Those fools should have let the crazed gunman open fire! What the h*ll were they thinking!

[taxtruth]

Walmart!Super high prices and no deals in Texas.

[fabian]

This will make not want to shop at walmart...idiot management better wake up.

[manic4organic]

I already don’t shop at Wally World. I see enough illegals on the street.

[Ditto]

But a week later, all four were fired from their jobs. Walmart said their actions had violated company policy and put their fellow workers and shoppers at risk.

Far better to be fired from Wall Mart than be carried out of Wall Mart by the coroners office.

[BykrBayb]

Wal-mart is putting political correctness ahead of the safety of their customers and employees. I like cheap prices as much as anyone, but not the expense of my safety.

[Ditto]

If you recall, until around 10 am on Sept. 11, 2001, every airline employee and passenger were instructed to cooperate with hijackers and leave it up to the ‘professionals’ to deal with them.

[goldstategop]

They should sue Wal-mart. They stopped a criminal.

Maybe Wal-mart doesn’t care about the safety of its employees and shoppers but the company needs to be taught a lesson where it hurts - its bottom line.

[One Name]

I’d have promoted them.

My policy would have read that they need to use discretion and judgement in volatile situations like this. You cannot write a blanket policy to cover every scenario. I wrote use-of-force policies for a maximum-security prison.

I used to tell my Captains that “you were the one there”- what you did may not have been what I would have done but if you can show that what you did was reasonable, prudent and logical I will support you 100%.

[BobL]

One would think that Walmart would be a LOT BETTER off perhaps talking to the employees and trying to understand the particular situation...rather than killing themselves in the PR world. This is just plain STUPID on their part.

The policy itself makes sense in almost all cases, but you have to have someone (other than a man-hating zealot) with the authority to flex some of these rules.

[taxtruth]

Please,someone tell us the great deals at Walfart.I can’t find one yet in Texas because they charge more than most stores for their JUNK.

[ChildOfThe60s]

OK, so the way I’m reading this is that they didn’t “confront” him after he pulled the gun. It appears they were following WM procedure and he then pulled the gun and grabbed his hostage.

They were in fear of the man’s life and believed it was safer to act then rather than let him back out with a hostage and perhaps shoot the hostage later.

Again, it appears they didn’t know he was armed until after he pulled the gun out and grabbed the guy. Is that the way others here read it?

Happening in that order, I’m not sure it violates WM policy.

[Walts Ice Pick]

Yes, this is just plain wrong.

It's irritating and this might be enough to get me to quit doing business with Walmart, but they do have some bargains that I just can't resist.

I quit eating their meat, though, when I heard that they buy some of their meats from the 99 Cent Store.

[Tolsti2]

Gotta be below 100 IQ to work at walmart, period. This stuff should mean anyone with any sense would leave or not be there at all in the first place.