Hard to believe 3 were armed, must be a fantastic neighborhood. As crazy as most businesses get about their employees being armed I am really sure management had no idea they had armed employees.
I imagine the employees were happy to be able to defend themselves since often now scum just kills people without thinking. Robbery is scary as can be, yes I would be in fear of my life for sure if I was being robbed.
After Obama took office my line of work dried up and I took a job as a night manager of a food/convenience store near my home to pay the bills. I was robbed by a man with a knife. The reality was I had no fear of the idiot and was going to disarm him and break his arms but the only thing I thought about was that company policy would have had me fired. By the time he left the parking lot he had two cops on his tail and they arrested him about five miles down the highway.
Since I always wore tactical pants at work the very next day I started carrying a compact 45 ACP in a DeSantis Nemisis holster in my right cargo pocket. Nobody ever knew it was there and I carried it until I left that job.