{"id":4392,"date":"2011-05-20T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/05\/20\/saying-no-to-self-protection\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:14:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:14:39","slug":"saying-no-to-self-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4392","title":{"rendered":"Saying No To Self-Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:17576,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/heraldpalladium.com\\\/articles\\\/2011\\\/05\\\/18\\\/local_news\\\/4820927.txt&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.heraldpalladium.com\\\/articles\\\/2011\\\/05\\\/18\\\/local_news\\\/4820927.txt&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Saying no to self-protection seems to the modus operandi within corporate America. I put this down to risk managers making the calculation that it is cheaper to pay a death claim on a murdered employee than it to defend a lawsuit filed by a personal injury lawyer on behalf of a criminal.<\/p>\n<p>The latest case involves the Walgreen&#8217;s chain of pharmacies. <\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Hoven was the night shift pharmacist at the Benton Township, Michigan Walgreens. I say &#8220;was&#8221; because he was fired by Walgreens after he stopped an armed robbery by firing his 3-4 shots from his revolver at the criminals. Mr. Hoven holds a Michigan concealed carry permit and was one of four employees in the store when the attempted robbery took place. <a href=\"http:\/\/heraldpalladium.com\/articles\/2011\/05\/18\/local_news\/4820927.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to his interview with the Herald-Palladium of Southwest Michigan,<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Hoven said his first hint something was wrong was seeing a manager run into a storeroom on the building&#8217;s west side. Seconds later he saw a man brandishing a handgun, guiding the second manager around the shelf at the northeast corner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first thing I tried to do was dial 911 but I couldn&#8217;t get it done,&#8221; Hoven said. &#8220;Within seconds he was over the counter. And I&#8217;m looking at the wrong end of a 9-millimeter (gun). He was holding it gangster-style&#8221; &#8211; sideways.<\/p>\n<p>The robber had jumped over the counter, leaving the manager in the aisle. The robber came within a few feet of Hoven.<\/p>\n<p>Hoven said the only thing behind the attacker was a cinder block wall. Thus he pulled his gun and fired three or four shots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was creating a safe zone for myself,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker tried to fire back, but his gun either malfunctioned or the safety had been left on, Hoven said.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Hoven says he would do it again because he knows he did the right thing in protecting himself and his fellow employees.<\/p>\n<p>As to Walgreens, on this past Monday they informed him by e-mail that he was fired. Frankly, I do not&nbsp;plan to give my patronage to a store that (a) cares so little about their employees&#8217; safety and (b) has so little class that they fire the guy by e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T Brian<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saying no to self-protection seems to the modus operandi within corporate America. I put this down to risk managers&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[158,1093,4160],"class_list":["post-4392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-concealed-carry","tag-corporate-policies","tag-walgreens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6698,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions\/6698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}