I’m pretty strong on the 2nd Amendment, but I also respect the contract between employer and employee. If the guy doesn’t think it’s safe to deliver pizzas without a gun, then he should find a less hazardous job.
As for the question of whether the pizza company is wrong to require its employees to a hazardous job without the ability to protect themselves: That’s complicated. If you shoot someone while performing company duties, the company is liable to be sued. If they allow you to carry a gun, they are responsible for training and licensing you to use it or ensuring you have the proper training and license. Their staffing and training costs would skyrocket, they’d need more expensive liability ensurance, probably special licensing from the state and/or municipality, etc., etc. Their hiring would probably have to focus on ex-military or ex-police. In effect, they’d be hiring and training security guards, not pizza drivers. Pizza delivery would soon become very, very unprofitable.
I’m not surprised this guys not getting job offers. Would you hire someone who a) takes a potentially dangerous job on the condition that he not be able to defend himself and b) flagrantly violates company policy? I may feel sorry for him, but I wouldn’t want him working for me.
