Reporter: "So they were pointing a gun in your face, did you sense despite the fact that they were pointing a gun, that you were threatened?"
You just can't make this stuff up...Where do they find these "journalists"?
Actually, the journalist was spot on in the whole interview, and did a great job exposing the stupidity of the company for firing an employee who defended his own life. I think the point of the question you quoted was for the journalist to elicit from the employee that there was more than one factor giving the employee reason to fear for his life. Journalists, like lawyers, sometimes ask questions they already know the answer to, in order to hammer something home.
This was an intelligent journalist, with a great piece that was favorable toward self-defense and ridiculing of the company's (Circle K) stupid anti self-defense policy.
A startWhat liability?
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Why would ANY judge award money to a criminal or the family of one, from either the SD citizen, or an employer?
A start
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life
The liability angle is bunk. If I'm killed while on the job because I couldn't have a firearm, my heirs will sue the employer AND the shooter. And they will pay out something. So it costs them (Employer or Insurance company) money.
If I defend myself with the blessing of my employer and I kill a bad guy the bad guys family will sue the employer and me (I will have some shaky legal protection from suit if shooting is justified.) the employer will not have protection and will pay out money.
In both cases the Employer gets sued and more than likely settles.
In one case the bad guys know the employees are defenseless and in the other they may not be. Which place does the bad guy target? Which one will have the less in-the-long-run liability due to being pro-active?
Why would ANY judge award money to a criminal or the family of one, from either the SD citizen, or an employer?
It was explained to me that you did not have to work anyplace that didn't allow you to defend yourself, so if you end up dead it was your own fault for voluntarily taking that job.