Funny - your Costco tagline. Reminds me of the Las Vegas Costco shooting where a guy with a concealed pistol - in a zippered case - was leaving the store and several cops stopped him.
“Hands in the air!!!”
“Drop the gun!!!”
“Get on your knees!!!”
Except it was each cop saying something different all at the same time.
“Uhm , wha..”
“Bang, bang, bang.”
Thanks! Looks like Costco man should have concealed it better immediately after the incident. ...and acted more calm. That’s all that a person can do. If the cops open fire on them then, oh, well. There are consequences to everything. And from criminology, criminals don’t consider consequences.
Food for thought for everyone. We won’t live forever.
Everyone should calculate the odds of carrying or not, each for his or her own situation. Just be sure to get as much training as possible, and get the permit, even in a constitutional carry state. Attend a school, even if the school is run by a retard. It’s good training for keeping our mouths shut and staying humble (very important for self-defense).
Attend another school, and another.
Continue training. Doing background checks for concealed carry permits make’s ‘em feel better to know the cleaner neighbors they might meet, and in some states, allows for reciprocation in more of the other states. There are always risks...like accidentally shooting oneself in the leg. Even a cop does that once in a while. Even good people who try the hardest are human and can only do the best that we can do. And we all have our bad days and good days.
Any police reading this should also remember that many drug-free, clean living, nice older men and women might look a little crazy at times while having a problem with diabetes, strokes and the like, especially after too much excitement—like a car stop, for example. And younger residents aren’t all bad, either. Some of them are really good, clean and well trained. Some of them just might not be trained on how to calm someone else who’s hysterical and too impulsive. We’re not all shrinks, you know.
Wait...you said “a zippered case.” Was it in his hand, when they arrived?
Repeated outrage isn’t getting anyone anywhere. Let’s have some ideas.
Police, dispatchers and administrators need some seminars. So do residents who carry. Need some kind of interface without a show of vanity—that is, vanity as in, “Lay down on your stomach, and bark like a dog! Now beg!”
There shouldn’t be any need for that. A check could be done on a location in advance to see if residents have it under control. Approaches could be a little more careful. Mental evaluations for new hires might otherwise be needed.
Lobby.