JP, have you ever tried to leave a Wal-Mart | |
and find that the alarms went off?
This happened to me about three times. Of course, Wal-Mart being Wal-Mart, four or five other people were leaving at the same time.
It frightens me that an armed lunatic might actually try to stop a shoplifter by shooting him.
In the first place, a crowded parking lot is no place to pull out a loaded weapon unless you are trying to save your own life or someone else's.
In the second place, even if the shoplifter committed a crime, shooting him is not an appropriate response to that crime.
A better solution would be writing down his license plate number and alerting the store detectives, who probably have his infraction on videotape and can have him arrested at his home.
The idea that some gun-toting vigilante might be running around supermarkets while I'm shopping (instead of keeping his weapon, unloaded, locked in a safe at home with the ammunition locked separately in a different place) gives me the creeps.
(I do think you were probably writing tongue-in-cheek...) | 
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