Time to boycott Autozone?

The way I see it, he broke the rules, and shouldn't expect anything differently.
Also, if I were him, I would've let the robber just take whatever the hell he wanted. To me, that job isn't worth putting myself in harm's way to try to stop a robbery. IMO, he's lucky he caught the robber off guard and wasn't shot in the process of trying to play hero.
 
The way I see it, he broke the rules, and shouldn't expect anything differently.
Also, if I were him, I would've let the robber just take whatever the hell he wanted. To me, that job isn't worth putting myself in harm's way to try to stop a robbery. IMO, he's lucky he caught the robber off guard and wasn't shot in the process of trying to play hero.
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You are right of course, you are not your brothers keeper, do not carry a badge and if other people get killed because nobody tried to stop this guy it's no skin off your nose. Sleep tight knowing we are all here looking out for you because you are worth any 20 of us dummies.

It wasn't the store manager that fired him it was the district manager and the store manager apologized to this guy about it. Sounds like he saved a stand up guy only to get knocked down by a petty small minded penny pinching bean counter. Good things jobs are plentiful in this economy, he should have no problem finding another job. In the meantime he can sell his gun to buy groceries and pay the rent with.
 
Sounds like this guy broke company policy, thats why he got fired end of story. So if you work in a government building like a court house for example, which by federal law prohibits firearms in the court house, you bring your gun to the court and are caught and prosecuted. And you defense would be you were exercising you 2nd amendment rights, you would loose your case and spend time in jail. You knowingly broke the law case closed. Common sense should be exercised on a daily basis. Individual businesses have the right to set thier own policies, would I go into a store that had a "no guns" sign in the window, NO I would not, thats my choice, and thier policy is thier choice.
 
It wasn't the store manager that fired him it was the district manager and the store manager apologized to this guy about it. Sounds like he saved a stand up guy only to get knocked down by a petty small minded penny pinching bean counter. Good things jobs are plentiful in this economy, he should have no problem finding another job. In the meantime he can sell his gun to buy groceries and pay the rent with.
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So you wonder why the store manager didn't whip out his own gun and and be a stand up guy and protect his employees? :rolleyes:
 
So you wonder why the store manager didn't whip out his own gun and and be a stand up guy and protect his employees?
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Do you think he would have been a store manager very long if anybody in home office discovered he was armed.

Wisconsin has 5.7 million people.

134.000 have CCW permits.

Estimates by those who track those things say less than half of that number carry regularly.

Even though it is legal and widely publicized gun carriers are regularly ostracized by their peers and harassed by police officers who make their own rules as they go.

We have a long way to go culturally speaking.
 
Do you think he would have been a store manager very long if anybody in home office discovered he was armed.
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About as long as the employee who was fired for having a gun at work. So the manager, who is supposed to be responsible, isn't his brother's keeper either. Got it.
 
AutoZone has decided they don't want legal guns on their property -- just the illegal ones.

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The hero of our little tale didn't have one in the store either because it was against the rules. He was in the rest room got outside, retrieved his gun and came back to rescue his manager who was on the ground covered by a gun. What did you expect the store manager to do, tackle him with his bare hands?

Oh that's right, you expected him to go home.
 
I boycott ANY and ALL businesses that do not recognize MY 2nd Amendment rights. If that Autozone employee had been killed-or badly injured, perhaps for life-would AutoZone be concerned with his well-being?
 
I boycott ANY and ALL businesses that do not recognize MY 2nd Amendment rights.
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How do you know who does? Sure, some folks have signs banning carry, but there are others who simply haven't posted yet.

Then there are the ones who couldn't care less about the RKBA (or might even be hostile) but don't have the inclination to be too public about it. Just because my local widget store doesn't ban carry doesn't mean they don't support anti-gun organizations.

Or, how about a company that does business with other companies who don't recognize the RKBA? What if it turns out the bank holding my mortgage gave money to an anti-gun politician's last campaign?

The idea of boycotting every business that doesn't support us seems satisfying in theory, but it would be an unworkable nightmare in practice.
 
Same here Old Grump.
Just too many other auto parts places to do bus. with.
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Could you show an example of an auto parts store that does allow their employees to be armed? Never heard of bumper to bumper, but I do know that Oreilly's and Car Quest, the two major competitors of Auto Zone in my area, have similar policies. I'm not defending their actions by any means, and I have expressed my distaste on multiple occasions, to no avail.

Its not the action of the firing of the employee that I disagree with, its the policy they have in place that bothers me.
 
The idea of boycotting every business that doesn't support us seems satisfying in theory, but it would be an unworkable nightmare in practice.
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This is very true. The company that I work for makes all new employees sign an agreement saying that we understand that if we are caught with any type of firearm on company property that we will be fired. People can feel free to boycott the company but if you do I hope you don't hunt. The company handles all online and telephone sales for hunting and fishing licenses as well as running the system for stores that sell licenses in more than half of the United States as well as part of Canada.
 
I'd be willing to bet that most of the people who condemn Autozone and other companies for not letting their employees carry would do the same thing if they ever owned a business and were forced to hire people they didn't know. It's just CYA.

I have no idea who the people I'm hiring are, their competence with a gun, or how level-headed they are. Why would I, as the man that could end up going to court or jail over this person, not care if they have a gun with them on my time? I can't allow one and not the other or I'd get accused of discrimination.

As gun owners, we have to abide by the same rules as anyone else. We're not an elite class. The point of a business is to make money, not flip off the man by allowing my employees to carry and do whatever they want.
 
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