As is the case of Panera Bread prohibiting law-abiding citizens being armed and numerous cases in which a Dominoes delivery driver was fired after successfully defending self using a firearm, let alone Ferguson and Trayvon, there is one principle they have in common:
Being shot by a criminal is not controversial. Shooting one is.
What is supposed to happen in all of these kinds of cases is the criminal maims or kills the target(s) and then we wring our hands and wonder out loud as to what society did to make these disadvantaged youths do something so desperate.
Then the solution is more social programs to provide “safe alternatives” to stomping somebody’s freaking head in.
Well, as they say, “Better to be judged by 12 than be carried by 6.”
I would also add, “Better to be thrown out of Panera Bread after shooting an attacker than die in the same Panera Bread.”
Also, “What I have on me—hidden from view—is NOT Panera Bread’s business or concern. I have a RIGHT to defend myself.”
This applies to all other enterprises that prevent me from protecting myself by some policy. If a law is passed, I will obey, but not some company policy designed to be socially trendy or politically correct. As we say here in Alabama, “Audemus jura nostra defendere!”