No good deed goes unpunished:

The assistant manager of a convenience store who pulled a gun and shot at an armed robber Saturday has been fired.

Johnny Jarriel Jr. was the manager on duty last Saturday morning when an armed robber approached him the office of the Circle K store at 5785 West Stewart’s Mill Road. Store officials declined comment Thursday, but the separation notice given to Jarriel lists “Possession/Use of a weapon on company property” as the reason for his termination.
Source: http://www.douglascountysentinel.com/news/local/article_b37830da-47fb-11e3-af11-001a4bcf6878.html

 

Gee, really? Burglary is also a crime yet that didn’t stop the criminal.

Jarriel said he has a state permit to carry a concealed weapon. He said that before he used the gun to shoot three times at a crazed gunman who was robbing the store, his manager knew he carried the gun at work and never said a word. Now that he had to use it to try to protect himself as well as another employee and two customers, he finds himself unemployed after more than three years on the job at Circle K.

 

More like a Circle KKK if you ask me. The Klan is also for disarmament (of minorities) yet this guy’s manager obviously had enough common sense to know no job is worth losing your life over it.

“I don’t want anyone saying I think I’m some kind of hero or something, but think about it,” Jarriel said. “I had a glassy-eyed man talking crazy sneak up on me, pepper spray me and threaten to kill me and everyone in the store. All I did was try to save my life and the lives of the three other people who were in the store. He had already said he would kill me and I had no idea what he would do if we got out into the store. He had already shown he was willing to do anything.”

 

Folks, can we please stop saying “we’re not heroes” when we do something good? Own it! Embrace it! You are a hero, Jarriel, you protected your life, your store, and that bastard got what he deserved.

Jarriel said he knew of the company’s “vague” rule about guns, but in an area where robberies have happened before, he felt that he had to exercise his constitutional right. As he recapped those terrifying three minutes that began at 9:05 Saturday morning, he said he wouldn’t have done anything different even if he could.

You know what? We need to start treating the 2nd Amendment as a civil right. Why is it that everyone else gets their rights protected? Muslims workers wear the hijab at Disney, Christians can refuse to sell birth control at RideAid (another cashier handles the transaction), ENDA has just passed so now it’s illegal to fire people for being gay. If we’re going to have protected categories, let’s include gun owners into the list. This has nothing to do with property rights, maybe someday we’ll have a right to own and keep property, but this day we have a right to keep and bear arms.

GeorgiaCarry.Org is a group that has fought to make sure the Second Amendment right to bear arms is protected. Co-founder James Camp said Thursday this scenario is one that is all too familiar in Georgia and one that will be repeated until the legislature moves to change existing laws….Camp said that while a legal battle would be tough, he urges Circle K customers to tell management how they feel. “They can vote with their pocketbook,” Camp said. “If they feel he had a right to carry a gun and defend himself, they should let the company know, spend their money elsewhere and tell them that this man deserves to have his job back.”

We’re going to do that, but in the meantime, I hope Jarriel gets some legal representation, because I smell a lawsuit here.