From the lovely and talented Breda comes this story
"He puts the dollar on the counter with the crackers and then, boom he's pulling out the gun," said Poland. The clerk can't get the register to open, upsetting the gunman. The manager hits the panic button. What happens next shocks everyone. A customer, believed to be in his sixties, makes a split second decision to help. He grabs two bottles of beer and smashes one over the back of the robber's head. The customer falls to the floor as gun shots ring out. The Good Samaritan is hit four times.
"He puts the dollar on the counter with the crackers and then, boom he's pulling out the gun," said Poland.
The clerk can't get the register to open, upsetting the gunman.
The manager hits the panic button.
What happens next shocks everyone.
A customer, believed to be in his sixties, makes a split second decision to help.
He grabs two bottles of beer and smashes one over the back of the robber's head.
The customer falls to the floor as gun shots ring out.
The Good Samaritan is hit four times.
Now, lucky for our guy, he survives. But the key part in the story I want to highlight is here
Sheriff's deputies showed up just minutes later.
Minutes.
They weren't there when the robber pulled the gun. They weren't there to deflect the bullets from the customer with the beer bottles. They weren't there until it was too late.
When seconds count, the cops are minutes away.
Great. So if he had a gun, the robber would have turned around and shot him anyway.