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Pharmacist fired by Walgreens releases video
It's the usual story: fellow working for a store is robbed, defends self successfully, and is fired for violation some policy against impeding robbers. This time, the un-victim has released the security cam videos, which has the store all bothered.
The change in the robber's attitude when he draws and shoots is marked. In about half a second it goes from aggressive to "run like hell" mode.
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Looks like Walgreens would rather you die than defend yourself.
Only employees are forbidden to defend themselves at Walgreens.
Mike: Then I suggest practicing Open Carry if you are a Walgreens customer, since they run a criminal friendly business.
So where would we shop? pretty much every place has such a policy (and they are all stupid).
I wrote Walgreens an email off their "contact us" page and I got back some lame boilerplate about "other businesses do it" and claims about safety this-and-that blah blah blah.
But if the robber who opened up shooting without provocation had hit we'd be talking about a dead man. I guess Walgreens is just practicing the "acceptable losses" approach where individual lives don't matter. It's all about the lawsuits and the bottom line.
I suggest that gun owners should refrain from spending their dollars at Walgreens. Economic pressure is the only thing that will make these anti-firearms rights businesses change their tune.