Most impressive.
But you are not a Jedi yet.
And there's no doubt it my mind you'd be absolutely useless in a real world situation if the best you can come up with is "Give 'em what they want."
Companies actually pay money for your advice? Do you offer a money back guarantee if anyone dumb enough to listen to you gets hurt or worse, or should we assume anyone that witless was bound to check out sooner than later anyway?
SECURITY EXPERT???
ReplyDeleteMy ass. How about "violent criminal advocate"?
And now Slate magazine is claiming that an armed citizen wouldn't have been able to take out the Aurora nut because of his SWAT gear:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2012/07/the_aurora_shooting_bulletproof_vests_swat_gear_and_body_armor_refute_the_nra_.html
Piss WAY off, all you victim-hood promoting "experts".
I'm pretty sure most of us will take our chances ARMED, as opposed to disarmed.
There's a Darwin analogy here, somewhere.
David,
ReplyDeleteThose were my thoughts too, but I don't believe people like her are "well meaning, but misguided". They are pernicious and evil. "Self preservation is suicide!"
They want our impotence.
Couldn't help but notice that a man with a beer bottle who fought back was treated like a moron by the reporter. "Do you feel like a hero?"
ReplyDeleteGeeze... He was shot four times, doesn't consider himself a hero, and would do the same thing again.
The difference is - he's a real man. Not a Cosmo-Dude, prancing fancy emo-boy coward. And the "experts" say he should be.
Meeting force with an abundance of force that the criminal won't enjoy is discouraged these days.
Perhaps that's why guys were murdered acting a bullet sponges to protect love ones rather than going down fighting. And are considered heroes.
The government-controlled media has almost succeeded in the sissification of the American Male.
How many "men" - mostly those who possess the luxury of armed guards - are reviving the clarion call for a disarmed and thus helpless society?
Perhaps they'd behave differently outside their guarded enclaves, absent from their hired protection.
My guess is they'd just grovel, and ask for a cushioned boot on their head. Besides - the ones who fight back just make all the sissies look bad.
Companies pay for this advice, because they are hiring her to limit their liability, not save the lives of the customers and employees.
ReplyDeleteUnder the American legal system, if a business doesn't prohibit weapons or force employees to submit, and someone is injured or shot on the property, the business will be sued and lose. If that same business has a "no weapons" policy, they are largely immune from suit because of "third party intervention" laws.
They are paying her to protect their profits, not save lives. It is easier for a company to get more customers or employees than it is more money.
Here is an example of this "expert's" advice, reported on the Web site of the National Association of Convenience Stores:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nacsonline.com/NACS/News/Daily/Pages/ND1122102.aspx
“DES MOINES, Iowa – Convenience stores that have two employees each late night or overnight shift does not translate into a safer store environment and usually makes things worse during a robbery, said security expert Rosemary Erickson in the Des Moines Register.
Erickson pointed out that studies have found that minimum staffing levels laws in New Mexico and Florida have not equaled better store security. “Two clerks does not make it less likely that you will get robbed,” she said. “And if you do get robbed, you end up with two dead clerks.””
Oh really, Rosemary? Gotta hold those costs down, at all costs, right?
Robbery = death for the clerk or clerks?
Here is an example of the "give them what they want" policy in action in a convenience store robbery of a single clerk in Seffner Florida yesterday evening:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/deputies-search-for-men-who-beat-robbed-71-year-old-seffner-store-clerk/1241910
"SEFFNER — A 71-year-old convenience store clerk is in the hospital after two men threw him to the ground, kicking and punching him in the head and stomach while stealing cash and cigarettes, deputies said.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office posted the surveillance tape on YouTube and is asking for the public's help in identifying the two suspects, who were last seen at 9:02 p.m. Monday at the U.S. 92 Convenience Store at 102 U.S. 92 W and Kings Avenue in Seffner.
The tape shows one man grabbing Hasimbhai Indawala by the shirt from across the counter while another man goes behind the counter with a knife and has Indawala open the cash register.
The first man then grabs Indawala and throws him to the ground, beating him several times in the head and stomach. After stealing an unknown amount of cash, the second man attacks Indawala.
"You see in the video, he backs away as if to say don't hurt me, take the money," Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Debbie Carter said. "And then they come back and just brutally attack him.""
Finally, on the 11 PM news, a Tampa TV station had the video from inside the store of the beating of the 71 year old clerk in the convenience store after he "gave 'em what they wanted":
ReplyDeletehttp://www.wtsp.com/news/topstories/article/265349/250/Elderly-store-clerk-brutally-beaten-in-robbery
The man was transferred to Tampa General Hospital for treatment of multiple facial bone fractures. This a family-owned convenience store and he was working alone. I do not think this was because of Rosemary's advice.