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To hear some in Georgia, you might think that having armed customers in a store makes for a very serious danger of somebody getting shot in the foot.
In this case, they would be correct.
Last weekend, a female armed robber (newsworthy on its own) decided to don a ski mask, carry a gun, and rob a convenience store in Tift County, Georgia. This turned out to be the wrong convenience store to rob at that particular time. The news report tells us what happened next:
. . . a customer already at the register pulled out his gun and shot the woman in the foot. She dropped her gun in the store and dropped her drivers license in the parking lot as she tried to get away . . .
The police arrested her when she later checked into the local hospital.
Examples of ordinary citizens exercising armed self defense are too numerous too list. Yet there will always be some who offer their opinion that "it will only be taken away and used against you," or that somehow the "untrained" population of Georgia citizens will shoot innocent bystanders inside a store during an armed robbery.
This woman armed robber in Macon turned out to be a man in a wig and a skirt. The armed employee who shot him was not injured, did not have the gun taken away and used against him, and did not injure any innocent bystanders in the store. The cross-dressing robber was also arrested at the hospital.
Experience demonstrates that armed customers do not make Georgia businesses more dangerous, unless you happen to be an armed robber.
