Wednesday, June 02, 2004

Deliver Pizzas, But Don't Protect Yourself

I’ve never delivered pizzas, but if I did, I would definitely carry a handgun.  Not to protect the pizzas, but to protect myself.  I guess I wouldn’t be working for Pizza Hut if that was the case.

"A pizza deliveryman won’t face charges for fatally shooting a would-be robber several times when he was approached in a high-crime area, but his employer, Pizza Hut, has fired him for violating a company policy against carrying firearms."

At least some former Pizza Hut customers understand.

""I hope those of you in the media will realize the incredible unfairness of a huge company telling its employees – in essence – they must agree to die for the company rather than use legal reasonable means to defend themselves,” Rick Whitham, an Indianapolis attorney, told WND. He says he saw Pizza Hut’s action as “clear discrimination against those who choose to lawfully exercise a legal, heavily regulated right.”

Whitham wrote to the company: “I don’t spend my money with businesses that openly discriminate against people such as myself who understand that the police have no affirmative duty to protect any particular citizen and that no company is worth dying for – particularly yours."

“Pizza man saved by gun, but fired for packin’ heat."

Posted by John Venlet on 06/02 at 02:12 AM
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