Auto Zone Employee Fired for Thwarting Robber

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/autozone-employee-and-veteran-fired-for-using-his-gun-to-ward-off-armed-robber/

The sheep culture is being forced on us - in the very place in which the British were decisively beaten to end the war, no less:

"When former AutoZone employee Devin McClean grabbed his gun from his car and chased an armed robber out of his store, he didn’t think his quick thinking would get him fired.

But it did:

“I was in fear of my life as soon as he walked through the door and I see the gun. Your heart just starts pounding,” McClean told NewsChannel 3.

As it turns out, McClean’s Yorktown, Va., store was being robbed by the so-called “fake-beard bandit” (probably the worst nickname in the history of crime), a criminal who had already knocked over about 30 businesses in the Virginia Peninsula area.

As the gunman forced the manager to unlock the store’s safe, McClean, a 23-year-old Air Force veteran, slipped out the back to retrieve his Glock 40 from his truck.

“I waited for him to go up toward the front, I ran out of the restroom, ran out to my truck where I keep my own personal weapon, grabbed my weapon, came back into the store and confronted the guy,” McClean recalls.

“When I yelled ‘freeze’ and I said ‘Stop! Drop the weapon,’ he threw his hands up with his gun still in his hand he started running,” the former AutoZone employee adds. “I felt like it was my responsibility to step in.”

The gunman wisely chose to flee......

But although the store’s manager was grateful for his employee’s bravery, McClean was fired two days later — right before Thanksgiving.

“It’s pretty much getting slapped in the face doing something that you feel was right everybody else around you feels you were right,” says McClean.

Other than to reiterate the company’s zero tolerance policy on weapons inside stores, AutoZone representatives refuse to comment on McClean’s firing.

And being laid off couldn’t have come at a worse time for McClean: He’s about to be a father.

“We’re having a little boy,” he said. “I remember when the guy came in with that gun. My initial thought was I want to make it home to my family. I want to have the opportunity to meet my son and for my son to meet his dad. And for someone to come in and shove a gun in your face?”......"

Companies routinely hide behind policies that are designed to prevent any and all civil litigation. These policies can have no result other than the enforced helplessness of the public. We are told that we have to remain defenseless unless by stroke of fortune the cops happen by at the time that the criminal is going about his business.

A friend of mine thought to email Auto Zone and inform them that, unless they reverse their decision to fire Mr. McClean, he would no longer shop in their stores. I will do the same thing, and I suggest that the reader consider doing the same:

https://www.autozone.com/autozone/contactus/customerService.jsp?landingPageCategory=inOurStores&title=customer+service