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Original Comment I'm quite sure that Auto Zone wrote their company policy under advice of some wimp of an attorney. I learned some 20 years ago that the U.S. has 75% of all the attorneys ON THE PLANET, practicing within its borders!(The statistic is probably worse by now.) I realized then that we were <br /> all in serious trouble! <br /> <br /> With 7 billion people on the planet, some 320 million<br /> people being here in the U.S. and 75% plus of all the attorneys residing (and most, conceivably practicing) HERE! (I might add that the vast majority of both<br /> houses of Congress are attorneys).<br /> <br /> Attorneys are trained to know the law and they like to think that they know best how the laws should be. But in my humble opinion, very few of them have what we call common sense. The same goes for many Boards of Directors and their executives.<br /> <br /> As it has been said so many times in these posts, this man is a hero and should have been treated like one. Sure the company may have their &quot;Zero-tolerance Policy&quot; but they can make an exception without encouraging their <br /> other employees to either &quot;arm up&quot; nor react in the same way that this man did.<br /> <br /> It is not well known, because for one thing the &quot;drive-by media&quot; doesn't like to report positive outcomes of citizens using firearms to stop crimes, but between 1 and 2 million times per year in this country, a crime is stopped dead in its tracks by a legally armed private citizen using a firearm. The reason the number can't be more accurate is that many of these incidents are <br /> never reported.<br /> <br /> A Mr. John R. Lott, Jr.(Phd?), has written the definitive works on this subject in two books entitled &quot;The Bias Against Guns&quot; and &quot;More Guns, Less Crime&quot;. If anyone <br /> with half a brain were to read one or both of these books they would come away with a completely different understanding of how law-abiding, free civilian men<br /> and women can and do, make a difference everyday in this country helping to curb major crime. And that without them, things would be far worse.<br /> <br /> Although I usually do not participate in boycotts, I WILL BE IN THIS ONE! I have an Auto Zone store at just a little over a mile from me, and I have done<br /> business there. But this will stop. Also I will advise all of my family and friends to do the same. O'Reilly and NAPA both have stores about 2-3 miles from my home. While less convenient, they will get my business until things <br /> are changed with this Auto Zone debacle!

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