Store Owners Arming Themselves After Nearby Robbery

By James England

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA — After an attempted violent armed robbery at a 7-eleven in North Las Vegas, shop keepers admitted to KTNV ABC 13 Action News that they’re increasingly deciding to arm up.

The decision was best explained by one local store clerk who described the problem as his life or theirs.

via KTNV Las Vegas Action News 13

“If I’m under a knife or gunpoint I have to decide if it’s my life or his life. I think it easy for me to decide it’s my life,” one store owner said.

Clerks and store owners are unwittingly placed into harm’s way every single day they open or close their shops. Armed criminals often prey upon them and other customers in gas stations, convenience stores, and restaurants.

For that one store owner, customers see him with a gun on his hip and know it’s there to protect him and them in the event of an armed robbery.

“They do call me the guy with the gun.. ehh…I don’t know if it’s a good thing or bad thing,” said the owner.

Retired Las Vegas police Lt. Randy Sutton argued the same old safety line about if you give up everything the bad guy wants, you …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation