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Has your house ever burned down? Do you have fire extinguishers and smoke alarms?
LOL, I love it when Libs use two sets of logic:
One for guns...
And another for everything else.
It's so easy to turn it around on them isn't it?
By their "gun logic" someone who puts a fire extinguisher under the sink in case of a fire is just as paranoid of a nut case as someone who carries a gun for self protection. For some reason, they don't see it that way....
It will be interesting to see how effective this is since they have never been robbed.
LOL
Can't prove a negative last I checked. We'll never know if someone didn't rob this bank BECAUSE they knew the tellers were armed.
Same argument I use when I defend the TSA.... People say "the TSA has never stopped a terror attack" to which I say we'll never know how many plots the TSA may have foiled or how many terrorists didn't bother because of the presence of the TSA.
By their "gun logic" someone who puts a fire extinguisher under the sink in case of a fire is just as paranoid of a nut case as someone who carries a gun for self protection. For some reason, they don't see it that way....
To compare keeping a fire extinquisher under your sink to arming a teller at a bank is about as ludicrous an analogy as I have ever read. An extinquisher puts out fires, arming a teller is like pouring gasoline on the fire. To even insinuate that a teller should risk her life for bank's money that is already covered by insurance is as vacuous an idea as I have ever heard. To further think that some idiot would actually recommend that a teller pull out a gun and start shooting in a crowded bank at a would-be thief just boggles the mind.
Let's see..if I am a teller with a family making $12.00 to $14.00 dollars an hour and someone points a gun at me, I can either go for a gun to defend the bank's money and potentially get killed with a bullet between my eyes or I can give the robber the money and live another day...That's a tough choice...I think I prefer to live and let law enforcement handle the robber later.
I actually do agree with you on this one. I never understood why someone like a cashier at a gas station would fight back if being robbed. It's just money, give it to them! If you get fired, so what? A job isn't worth your life.
I guess if you were the actual owner then I could understand. Other than that, if I'm working in a store, feel free to take whatever. I'm not putting myself in harms way over a few bucks that aren't even mine to begin with.
To compare keeping a fire extinquisher under your sink to arming a teller at a bank is about as ludicrous an analogy as I have ever read. An extinquisher puts out fires, arming a teller is like pouring gasoline on the fire. To even insinuate that a teller should risk her life for bank's money that is already covered by insurance is as vacuous an idea as I have ever heard. To further think that some idiot would actually recommend that a teller pull out a gun and start shooting in a crowded bank at a would-be thief just boggles the mind.
Why are they so different? A fire extinguisher is a material object, and keeping one is a matter of being prepared for an unlikely but possible event.
A gun is a material object, and keeping one is a matter of being prepared for an unlikely but possible event.
There is no difference. The only difference resides in your mind. You think about the two objects differently. Guns don't just jump up and start shooting people on their own.
I don't know the requirements of this particular bank, but as long as all the tellers have the training that most states require to be able to carry a gun, I wouldn't feel unsafe at all in a bank full of armed tellers. I think gas stations and convenience store owners that stay open all night should take note of what this bank is doing to. If I worked in one of these places, I would carry if allowed, but like I said earlier, I would just give a robber whatever he wanted. Hopefully knowing that the cashiers were armed would be a discouragement to would-be robbers.
I don't understand gun grabbers. First they think you are going to shoot yourself if you carry a gun but when you have emergency you should not be able to protect yourself, you should call someone else that carries a gun that is 10 minutes away.
If you think the majority of police officers are well trained in firearms, well, I have some ocean view property in Idaho to sell you.
Anyone can be armed with a gun but it doesn't mean they know how to use it responsibly. Have these tellers been trained. The article doesn't say. And everyone's head should explode if these tellers have never shot a gun before. That would not make me feel safe.
Can't prove a negative last I checked. We'll never know if someone didn't rob this bank BECAUSE they knew the tellers were armed.
Same argument I use when I defend the TSA.... People say "the TSA has never stopped a terror attack" to which I say we'll never know how many plots the TSA may have foiled or how many terrorists didn't bother because of the presence of the TSA.
Can't prove a negative? This is a solution in search of a problem, they have never been robbed yet they are willing to arm tellers.
Can't prove a negative? This is a solution in search of a problem, they have never been robbed yet they are willing to arm tellers.
Don't you see the enormous hole in your logic? Going off of your line of thinking, they shouldn't even put an alarm system or cameras in..... because they have never been robbed.
It's all about taking a proactive approach to prevention.... I'm sure they'd be happy if they never get robbed. Arming the tellers is just one more layer of security and a deterrent for a criminal considering robbing that bank.
Preparedness should always be proactive, not reactive.
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