Suspect arrested after Bellmore pharmacist fires gun during robbery
http://www.examiner.com/article/suspect-arrested-after-bellmore-pharmacist-fires-gun-during-robbery
From the article:
A Freeport man was arrested Friday on felony robbery charges after police said he robbed a Bellmore pharmacy, threatened the pharmacist with a knife and then led police on a chase for nearly three miles, according to a Nassau County police news release.
Cops said the pharmacist owned a licensed revolver and fired once after he was threatened with the knife. The bullet “deflected off the ground and struck the rear tire of Gumpert’s car,” police said in the news release. Even after the bullet was fired towards him, police said Gumpert entered his car and fled north on Bedford Avenue.
Of course, if this had been a chain employee.. the RPH… would only had the option to “smile for the store video camera”.. so that the corporation can help arrest those who would kill/harm their employees or customers… or as some other chain RPH’s have found… protect yourself from a armed robber and you get fired https://www.pharmaciststeve.com/?p=2412
and the courts will stand behind the corporation’s right to deny an employee to protect themselves on the job…
Could a armed robbery be consider a worse case “hostile work environment”… that the chains – most likely – state in their policy and procedure manual.. they will not tolerate ?
The common sense rule is .. if you are in fear of your life.. and you have a gun.. you keep firing until the threat is no longer there..
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“The common sense rule is .. if you are in fear of your life.. and you have a gun.. you keep firing until the threat is no longer there..”
Yes, except for the fact that he missed the target and shot the guys car instead. Can you imagine if he missed the car tire completely and shot a kid instead. Chains are worried about gun nuts shooting up their innocent customers, but of course innocent people have never been shot.
CHIP… perhaps you had better read a little more … http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/nyregion/gunman-kills-4-in-a-long-island-pharmacy.html?_r=0
A Pharmacist & clerk killed AND TWO CUSTOMERS.. This was just about one year ago…
Every pharmacy should have at least one person trained to use a gun and there should be a gun in the pharmacy at all times. Of course, it will not happen with the chains. They had rather their employees be sacrificed than for them to have a lawsuit against them.