Pizza Driver May Lose Job For Defending Her Life
By Dreamer
A woman who delivers pizza for Papa John’s is facing consequences for defending her life against an armed robber during an altercation she had with the man while on the job.
According to WSB-TV, the unidentified DeKalb County, Georgia employee was making deliveries when a man approached her in her vehicle with a gun in his hand and forced her to the ground. The woman managed to reach into her pocket and pull out her own handgun and fired shots at the suspect, who was later identified as 24-year-old Donquaz Stevenson. During the scuffle, a second suspect hopped in the woman’s car and took off. The car thief still remains at large.
Donquaz Stevenson, 24
Stevenson scurried away with a gunshot wound to his face, but was found a short time later in a nearby yard, Capt. Stephen Fore with the DeKalb County Police Department said. But now the employee fears that the gun which may have saved her life will cause her to lose her job since she was carrying it at work unbeknownst to her employer. Papa John’s has had a long-running policy that forbids employees from being armed for their own self-defense,Bearing Arms reported.
Although Business Insider has deemed food delivery drivers as having one of the 10 most dangerous jobs in the United States, they are largely required to be unarmed according to most food company policies aimed to protect their bottom line, not their employees’ lives. Many corporations have determined that it is cheaper to deal with drivers injured or killed in robberies than it is to deal with the possibility of litigation if one of their employees shoots someone. However, most individual franchise owners and store managers have a more practical approach to the matter, knowing the hazards of the job, and take a “don’t ask/don’t tell” approach to the matter of concealed carry.
This woman did what she had to do to save her life, which is far more important than any job. It’s time to consider a federal law which shields employers against lawsuits if their employees are forced to use firearms in self-defense while on the clock for the company. People are more important than profits.
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h/t: [BearingArms]
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