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Travis_0004 Donating Member (417 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-10-10 03:49 PM
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14. Should security have done something: Yes
Security should have did something, even if they are not required to. Should we rely on anybody else to protect us: No.

If I was one of those security officers, I would have fought back, although doing so might cost them their job. I'm a college student, If I had a wife and family to support, then I may have been less likely to risk my job (or health).

I think a person with a gun could have stopped this situation immediately (without firing a shot). I would assume this location was almost certainly banning concealed weapons, which made it much safer for the criminals.

Why didn't the women the news interviewed do something? She could have fought back. I think an adult women would have been out numbered against 10 teenagers, but so would 3 security guards.
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  -For those of you that think, Security guards and such, will protect you.. virginia mountainman  Feb-10-10 02:24 PM   #0 
  - I'm going to have to rethink my reliance on security guards.  RUMMYisFROSTED   Feb-10-10 02:27 PM   #1 
  - Therefore, we should all carry. Even teenagers. Right?  Dogmudgeon   Feb-10-10 02:27 PM   #2 
  - "no such thing as risk-free existence" - absolutely false!!1!  Tejas   Feb-10-10 02:36 PM   #3 
  - No, not everybody should carry. No gun supporter here that I can remember...  spin   Feb-10-10 04:29 PM   #16 
  - Please, cite? n/t  PavePusher   Feb-10-10 05:07 PM   #17 
  - Uh ... okay  Dogmudgeon   Feb-10-10 09:44 PM   #25 
     - Umm, I meant a cite to where anyone claims that everyone, including children, should have guns.  PavePusher   Feb-11-10 12:28 PM   #35 
  - The ONLY people who say such things..  virginia mountainman   Feb-10-10 07:41 PM   #24 
  - Who has said/advocated this? Please cite names/organizations. nt  SteveM   Feb-10-10 11:15 PM   #29 
  - Observe and Report  Glassunion   Feb-10-10 02:52 PM   #4 
  - OK  Old Codger   Feb-10-10 02:59 PM   #6 
     - Don't get me wrong...  Glassunion   Feb-10-10 03:11 PM   #8 
        - I agree  Old Codger   Feb-10-10 03:32 PM   #9 
  - The security guards emboldened the beating. (typo fixed)  rrneck   Feb-10-10 02:55 PM   #5 
  - No they did not  Glassunion   Feb-10-10 03:09 PM   #7 
     - You're right.  rrneck   Feb-10-10 03:41 PM   #11 
        - LOL!!!  eqfan592   Feb-10-10 09:51 PM   #27 
  - I'll bet the guards would be fired for getting involved.  Tim01   Feb-10-10 03:37 PM   #10 
  - That is true, I remember reading about...  pneutin   Feb-10-10 05:59 PM   #19 
  - I'll take being fired...  PavePusher   Feb-11-10 12:33 PM   #36 
  - The only good security guards are Xe  Gman2   Feb-10-10 03:43 PM   #12 
  - I'll bet Xe would be told to get involved.  Tim01   Feb-10-10 10:36 PM   #28 
  - They'd be told to protect their client.  jeepnstein   Feb-11-10 01:15 PM   #40 
  - Burglar alarm commercials.  gorfle   Feb-11-10 12:49 PM   #37 
     - I HATE that commercial.  GreenStormCloud   Feb-11-10 06:00 PM   #41 
  - Forgot to mention, 1 in 4 persons are employed to keep control over the rest of us.  Gman2   Feb-10-10 03:44 PM   #13 
  - How do you figure?  Glassunion   Feb-10-10 03:58 PM   #15 
  - Study just out, states that 1 in four Americans is employed to watch the rest of us.  Gman2   Feb-10-10 05:58 PM   #18 
     - Shout it from the rooftops !  Katya Mullethov   Feb-10-10 06:12 PM   #20 
     - Man, can you mangle a headline or what..  X_Digger   Feb-10-10 06:53 PM   #21 
  - I saw the thread on that study, but I don't believe it.  GreenStormCloud   Feb-10-10 07:02 PM   #22 
  - Should security have done something: Yes  Travis_0004   Feb-10-10 03:49 PM   #14 
  - The woman they showed was on a bus,  burrfoot   Feb-11-10 10:13 AM   #33 
  - Modern guards, even armed ones, are told to not interfere. They are NOT almost-cops.  GreenStormCloud   Feb-10-10 07:15 PM   #23 
  - True.  jeepnstein   Feb-11-10 01:13 PM   #39 
  - "Security guards" my ass. Sick.  PavePusher   Feb-10-10 09:44 PM   #26 
  - Fortunately, I was under no such illusion in the first place  Euromutt   Feb-10-10 11:19 PM   #30 
  - Damn straight. nt  rrneck   Feb-11-10 10:06 AM   #32 
  - Well said. (n/t)  benEzra   Feb-12-10 08:10 AM   #56 
  - When it comes to self-defense, the only person you should rely on is yourself.  proteus_lives   Feb-11-10 01:11 AM   #31 
  - I sympathize with the guards  rrneck   Feb-11-10 10:20 AM   #34 
  - Juveniles as vermin  one-eyed fat man   Feb-11-10 07:19 PM   #43 
  - Security gaurds are just security theater.  gorfle   Feb-11-10 01:04 PM   #38 
  - I heard on the news that the girl asked the security guards...  spin   Feb-11-10 07:15 PM   #42 
  - I hear you, spin. Me too.  GreenStormCloud   Feb-11-10 08:01 PM   #46 
     - My daughter pointed out to me that jobs are hard to find ...  spin   Feb-11-10 08:35 PM   #47 
        - I would think that had you put the girl emphatically on her ass  TPaine7   Feb-11-10 09:27 PM   #50 
           - That's probably the best thing to do in that situation. (n/t).  spin   Feb-12-10 12:09 AM   #51 
  - Trying to break up a teen-age fight is dangerous.  GreenStormCloud   Feb-11-10 07:33 PM   #44 
  - Speaking for myself, I'm not faulting the security personnel personally  Euromutt   Feb-11-10 09:12 PM   #48 
  - WTF is wrong with this country?!?!  PavePusher   Feb-11-10 09:12 PM   #49 
     - Depends on what they're "guarding"...  jeepnstein   Feb-12-10 07:56 AM   #55 
  - Be your own security guard  Indy Lurker   Feb-11-10 07:53 PM   #45 
  - Most of you have been sucked in like the AP  Indy Lurker   Feb-12-10 06:18 AM   #52 
     - Most people use the two words interchangeably.  GreenStormCloud   Feb-12-10 07:26 AM   #53 
     - you mean those security guys  one-eyed fat man   Feb-12-10 07:34 AM   #54 
        - Exactly.  Indy Lurker   Feb-12-10 11:40 AM   #57 
 

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