What did this girl have that she needed?

[Seth]

Guns and Gear
Handguns are seen for sale in a display case at Metro Shooting Supplies in Bridgeton, Missouri, November 13, 2014. REUTERS/Jim Young
‘She Knows How To Shoot’: Pizza Parlor Employee Wards Off 3 Armed Robbers
9:46 PM 01/31/2015

Chuck Ross is a reporter at The Daily Caller.

After Sarah Cherry’s father was robbed at gunpoint two months ago at an Arkansas Domino’s pizza store, the former Army military police officer began carrying a gun with her for protection to her job at the same restaurant.

Cherry had cause to use that gun — a .380 — Wednesday night when three armed men wearing hoodies stormed into the Blytheville eatery and shot at her during a robbery attempt.

“When she came around [to the front of the store], she didn’t know what was going on,” Cherry’s father, Clint Cherry, told The Daily Caller during a phone interview. “She came around front, and she shot.”

“She was defending the people more than herself,” Cherry added, noting that there were three or four other employees in the store at the time.

Cherry said his daughter fired three shots at the assailants.

“When she shot, they took off. And then she followed them out the door to see where they were going. She might have said a few choice words too,” Cherry joked.

“She knows how to shoot,” the proud father added, mentioning that his daughter was a military police officer during her six years in the Army. “She could have hit them if she wanted to.”

Clint Cherry himself has stared down the barrel of a gun — and it wasn’t during his own 28-year military career.

Two months ago an armed robber “stuck a gun in my face,” Cherry said, adding that he handed the robber the $18 he had in his pocket.

“There’s so much stuff going on in this town,” Cherry told TheDC.

He rattled off a list of businesses in town that have been robbed recently. Besides his own store, an insurance company down the street was recently hit. As was a chicken restaurant. A gas station across town was robbed Friday, he said.

“I told her, I said, use it to protect yourself,” Cherry says he told his daughter of her work gun. “We lose our job, we lose our job, but we’re going to protect ourselves.”

Like many restaurants, Domino’s has a corporate policy prohibiting employees from carrying guns while at work. Many have questioned whether these policies are wise, especially for employees of pizza restaurants, whose delivery drivers are prime targets for criminals.

Such a policy came up several weeks ago when a Papa John’s pizza delivery driver in Georgia shot a man in the face as he attempted to rob her at gunpoint. (RELATED: Papa John’s Delivery Driver Shoots Armed Robber, Now Worried She Will Lose Her Job)

Papa John’s also has a corporate policy prohibiting employees from carrying guns, even for protection. That employee initially worried that she would lose her job, but the company decided against the idea several days later. Instead, the company gave her a job inside a store and offered her counseling.

Domino’s employees have lost their jobs in the past for shooting at armed robbers in self-defense. The company requires employees to sign an agreement containing a clause about not carrying weapons.

A spokesman for Domino’s corporate office said that the decision to fire Cherry over the incident would be up to the franchisee who owns the Blytheville store.

“The corporate office has no authority in making personnel decisions for independent business owners,” Tim McIntyre, senior vice president of corporate communications for Domino’s told TheDC.

Clint Cherry said that he is certain that the independent franchisee supports his daughter and will not fire her.

TheDC was unable to reach the franchisee.

Blytheville police commended Cherry for protecting herself and her co-workers.

[tattuchu]

If she was a good enough shot to hit them, then she should have hit them. But she did not, thus this is a sad story rather than a happy one.

[Seth]

If she was a good enough shot to hit them, then she should have hit them. But she did not, thus this is a sad story rather than a happy one.

I agree in part. Three dead robbers would have been preferable, but neither she nor her co-workers were hurt, so it was another successful DGU.

[klr]

And quicker than you can say "bang, you're dead", this thread is where it belongs.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

And what did this boy have that he didn't need?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-31082294

A three-year-old American boy has shot his mother and father with the same bullet after pulling a gun from her handbag, police say.

The incident took place in a motel room on Saturday afternoon in Albuquerque in the state of New Mexico.

The toddler was apparently reaching for an iPod.

The bullet passed through his father's buttock and hit his mother, who is eight months pregnant, in the arm. Both parents are said to be recovering.

The boy's two-year-old sister, who was also in the room at the America's Best Value Inn, was unhurt.

[klr]

Yeah, but the iPod was probably locked, so that the sprog couldn't listen to any unwholesome music. That's much more important, innit?

[Blind groper]

The common thread in the girl story is the number of people with guns, including the bloody robbers. The USA has 200 gun crimes per 100,000 people per year, which is way more than any other wealthy advanced western nation. Get rid of the guns, and the gun crimes will drop.

We do not have those problems here in NZ. Or Australia. Or the UK. etc.

[Seth]

The common thread in the girl story is the number of people with guns, including the bloody robbers. The USA has 200 gun crimes per 100,000 people per year, which is way more than any other wealthy advanced western nation. Get rid of the guns, and the gun crimes will drop.

No, it won't, it'll go up, as Chicago, Detroit and other gun-ban places prove. Also, it's impossible to "get rid of the guns"

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Also, it's impossible to "get rid of the guns"

...and there's your problem.

It would be a start if the NRA would endorse at least cursory background checks for new purchases - their intractable stubbornness on this has always astounded me. Perhaps refuse to sell them to morons that would leave them next to an iPad in a handbag where a 3-year-old could reach it...?

[pErvinalia]

I thought this thread was going to be about boobies!

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I thought this thread was going to be about boobies!

Just for you...

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

[pErvinalia]

[JimC]

The common thread in the girl story is the number of people with guns, including the bloody robbers. The USA has 200 gun crimes per 100,000 people per year, which is way more than any other wealthy advanced western nation. Get rid of the guns, and the gun crimes will drop.

No, it won't, it'll go up, as Chicago, Detroit and other gun-ban places prove. Also, it's impossible to "get rid of the guns"

It may well go up, in your particular situation. I suspect you are in a gun trap, and will simply not be able to change (here I differ from BG).

However, gun deaths would certainly go up in the civilised world if we suddenly were flooded with guns as in the USA. Luckily, that ain't going to happen, as the populace as a whole strongly supports current gun laws.

[Sean Hayden]

Guns will be in the right hands after global warming has killed most people.

[Blind groper]

As I have said before, getting rid of guns is not an all or nothing situation. You cannot get rid of all the guns overnight. But you can make a start.

Places like Canada, Sweden etc still have guns, though almost no hand guns. Their gun crime rate is much lower than the USA.

Currently 8,000 people per year are murdered with hand guns in the USA. Reduce hand gun numbers by 10% and we would expect a reduction in murders of a bit less than that. Even a reduction of 5% in hand gun murders will save 400 human lives each year. Every little bit is worth while.