If everyone shoplifted from me at will, I will go broke. If I go broke, I have no money. If I have no money I can no longer buy food. If I can no longer buy food, I will die. I was in fear of starving to death so I shot the person stealing from me.
As long as Tokay Liquors posted the sign, the owner should be alright. Did he post the sign?
Shoplifters will be shot. Survivors will be prosecuted.
SCREW CALIFORNIA!
What happened to "Stop or I'll shoot?"
Today it is let them take what they want or I'll call the cops or the ACLU. Business owners have fewer rights in today's world. The current government just wants to make sure that you are paying your fair share in taxes.
Only way we can change this is to effect a political revolution in this country. Throw all the socialist anti-American scum out of political office.
We have police shootings in Jax almost weekly where the dead suspect (who can tell no tales) is reported to have “refused police orders to show his hands.”
That’s all it takes, if you are a cop drawing a bead. Just state that the dead victim “looked like he might have been going for a gun.” Or he just “refused to show his hands.”
BANG! No problem. If you are a cop.
Oh, I see...
The suspect was a white man. The store clerk was not. I don’t think that it matters one way or the other but you don’t shoot someone (and perhaps kill him) for a property crime. The clerk shot the man, in the back, as he was running out of the store with the beer. There was no threat to the clerk.
Police are government workers. What do expect from government workers?
In a place like California, a liquor store owner should use a 1-2-3 defense. 1 being pepper spray, 2 a Taser, and 3 a gun. Optional 4, a knife.
The rationale is that liquor stores are frequent targets of snatch and dash, mostly for beer. Since beer is of relatively low value, some good old fashioned Pavlovian conditioning with pepper spray could be the cat’s pajamas.
The Taser is good for less than lethal problems that are more serious. It is the biggest gray area for use if the perp is unarmed, but still a serious pest.
And there, of course, are times when you just have to have a gun, known to us all.
Me, I love knives for in-fighting. Typically in cases like this, the perp wants to get over the counter and in the face, which is within the optimal utility of a gun but ideal for a knife.
Of course, this is just for California.
Basically, they are expecting gun owners to make expert decisions and to know the unknowable. When all of the facts are known in hindsight, of course one can usually conceive of a better course of action.
So if someone robs a store, the owner should not worry unless the robber pulls out a weapon. Should the store owner asked the robber if he had a gun? (ha ha). WTF? Robbery is a violent and aggressive act and the store owner has been robbed before at gunpoint and now this robbery is no big deal? This puts the store owner in a very difficult position. One could say, use a Taser, but that would not match a gun.