I was clicking through the headlines this weekend and came across this story:
Employees were cleaning up Wednesday night at Jet’s Pizza on Fort Campbell Boulevard when two men and a woman, all wearing masks, came in through the back door. […]
One employee, who preferred not to be identified, said he had a decision to make.
“Should I grab the machete next to me?” the employee said he wondered.
It was a big pizza knife, but he decided against it, knowing at least one of the guns wasn’t a toy.
“He had a .38 revolver, and I knew that was real, because it was about this far from my face, and I could see the bullets in the cylinder,” the employee said.
Now, all three robbers were armed with handguns (and none were legally allowed to own them, so there’s that), so that employee was absolutely right to not counterattack with a kitchen knife. I’m glad no one was seriously injured (the manager was pistol whipped) and the cops have caught at least one of the perpetrators.
However, this picture that accompanied the story scares the hell out of me:
I’ve mentioned before that the reason I’m a “gun guy” is that a serial killer named Paul Dennis Reid killed two acquaintances of mine in 1997 in separate fast food robberies. He executed his victims by making them lie on the floor face down, having the manager give him the money….and then shooting everyone in the back of the head. So when I saw that picture, I immediately had a flash back.
If Jet’s Pizza rings a bell, it may be because I mentioned that a local franchisee encourages his employees to get their carry permits and protect themselves as needed a couple of years ago. No word on whether or not the owner of this store has a similar policy.