Pizza Hut is negligible for creating an environment at work that is dangerous for its drivers by sending them on deliveries where they can be robbed.
If it bans drivers from carrying weapons and bans them from defending themselves, then when the drivers are injured or killed on the job, they are greatly more liable for having removed the means for self-defense as a condition of employment.
I and most of the drivers I knew who delivered pizza carried weapons, many of these weapons were pistols. We as a group refused to submit to creeps and were determined to prevail even if it meant running someone over. My life is not as important as the pizza.
As for Law Officers being experts with weapons – that is a lie. Most officers shoot their weapons only during yearly qualification and that qualification involves shooting paper targets that do not move and do not shoot back. No wonder so many shots are fired by officers that never hit.
Individuals trained in the military and at civilian schools that stress fire and movement have very very high track records with both terrorists and in shootouts.
Tom Givens has one of the largest civilian student bodies and dozens of his students have been involved in shootouts and have prevailed.
The decision to use force of arms to protect oneself cannot only be left to the individual, who out alone faces a terrifying event where no one not even the police can protect them from harm.
Its insulting and demeaning and a gross injustice for someone to suggest remove that right by hiding behind a keyboard in a safe place.
I think Dave should put on a Pizza Hut uniform and walk around the projects and barrios looking lost and see how long he lasts and then feel how it feels to crap in his pants and pee in his pants when some creep sticks a gun in his face and knife in his guts for ten dollars.
