7-11 robbed with a hammer, blocks from my home.
Sun Nov 25 13:48:14 EST 2001
9/30/01
I walked from my home to a nearby 7-11 to buy cat food. When I got there, there was a police car in the lot. The officer was apparently taking a report. The place had just been robbed by a guy armed only with a hammer. I find this very upsetting. At what point does it stop being the robbers fault for threatening your life, and start being your fault for giving away money ? If a decrepit old unarmed lady came in the store and demanded their cash, would the guy still have handed it over ? Would the company still have supported his actions ? This ridiculousness only serves to encourage crime. I object.
I have decided that I am thankful that I was not in the store. I don't know what I would have done, but I'm sure if it got at all complicated, the law would have said I should have stayed out of other people's business. Even though it was personally unacceptable to me to allow this foolish criminal to continue to deteriorate the civilization I am a part of.
Tue, 4 Dec 2001 18:53:56 -0500
No, I'm not really upset with the clerk. He's just some guy doing what
he can to get by, and that includes following his company's policies
so he can keep his job. I'm upset with the company that created the
policy, and more with the government that created the laws that make
it financially unwise for the company to encourage its employees to use
appropriate force to defend themselves and the property of their employer.
I'm not really even that upset with the guy with the hammer. He's just
another guy trying, probably desperately, to get by, and taking advantage of
the state of our country to do so.
I am offended by the state of our country that encouraged this situation.
I think if every 7-11 had a gun under the counter with a lock designed
to be opened with 3 quick presses of buttons on a combination lock, and
was loaded, and employees were encouraged to use it to defend themselves
and the store, and everybody knew it, the world would be a much better
and safer place.
I feel very strongly that anyone is justified in killing anyone who
attempts to inappropriately take or destroy their possessions. And I feel
that this clearly extends to an employee of the owner of the possessions.
So I feel that the 7-11 clerk would have been very justified, and perhaps
even obligated as a free man, to kill the guy with the hammer, and resist
criminal oppression. He would have done the world justice.
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