Posted: 10/11/2004 1:01:06 PM EDT
| I applied as a part time waiter at Logan's Roadhouse in San Antonio several months ago to have a weekend and evening job. Well, they were robbed after hours on Friday. If I would have been hired, I would have been there with my CHL and it would have not been pretty. |
TEXAS...'nuff said...  |
Three dudes came in waving pistols around. I would have shot them. I might have been shot too. 
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What if someone busts into your home, and only takes your TV without harming anyone. So, technically, if you shot the robber; you'd be defending your TV? You'd risk your family to let robbers take your possessions IN HOPING that they don't kill you? |
The Lone Ranger did.... Sgtar15 |
+1 Especially with customers around. Not saying you'd be a pussy or anything, but the right move might have been to lay low. What if you escalated a situation, and a couple of kids get caught in the crossfire? A newlywed couple? A waitress? Have you ever engaged numerous armed BG's? How about just one? Not a flame, just food for thought. |
...Cops all over the country do this everyday. In fact, recently, a cop pulled over a vehicle with 3 occupants here in SC. 2 of the three guys got out, tried to attack him, 3rd was trying to drive away. Cop managed to keep his pistol secure and detain 2 suspects that tried to attack him. 3rd got away, was found and arrested later. |
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I did not get the job because I could only wor Friday-Sunday, as I have a real job M-Th 10 hours a day. I guess they wanted someone to work all week. FWIW, I carry 24-7 unless I am carrer job M-Th as I am in a resticted area and only guard have the weapons unless you want to lose your career. ETA the robbery was after they were closed and the waitstaff was cleaning up for the night. No possibility for cross fire with customers. |
Key word being "COPS". Different training than "WAITER". |
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If life is a game of "whatifs", then I *could* have saved my friend and a few others' lives at Wedgwood Baptist when a gunman burst in and started shooting. I was invited to go that night (and I would have been carrying), but I had some exams to prepare for. Then again, "whatif" games are stupid. |
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yeah you would have pulled your pistol, done a combat roll and emptied the magazine while jumping sideways ala john woo movies. dont be a dumbass, you didnt work there, you have no more connection to it than any other customer, and you werent there when it was robbed. stop the hero fantasy and realize a shooting is not something you want be involved in. it can break you financially, emotionally, and can ruin a good part of your life as you fight the courts, the dead perps family, and the cops to get your gun back. be thankful you werent there. a last resort when the alternative is grim. |
But you were not hired. You were not there. Even if you had been hired, maybe you would not have worked there that night. If only I had worked in the book depository in Dallas, or been a lawn mowing guy on the grassy knoll. It would have not been pretty. 
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well said. +1 |
If we're going to generalize, I'd say most cops are better trained than most waiters. There are exceptions. So, the point is not "moot". Dig? |
Fuckin A. +2 |
How many waiters have you examined and instructed to evaluate their shooting preformance? None? Oh, ok, thanks. It's the point that if someone has the training and legal ability to stop such an instance where someone could be injured, what's wrong? If these crooks had entered a house during a birthday party (particularly YOUR house, for argument's sake), would you allow them to take and steal and leech off you simply because there's people around? Sure, a stray bullet could hit that little girl sitting in that booth eating ice cream... but the criminal can also kidnap the girl and rape her and then put a bullet in her head. Which would you rather have the likely hood of happening? |