Earlier this month when pizza delivery guy James William Spiers III, 38, of Des Moines, fired multiple shots at an alleged robber who is accused of putting a gun to Spiers’ head, the incident made big news.
The news wasn’t that Spiers’ was nearly robbed. We’re accustomed to pizza delivery guys getting robbed. Eh, food service drivers getting jacked is barely a page three blip anymore… unless there were more than three robbers, all of which were armed with a semi-automatic weapons and belonged to a gang and/or inflicted physical harm on the driver plus stole the pizzas… then, only if the pies were large and contained sausage, pepperoni or some other type of meaty-like substance (because no one gives a shit if a vegetarian pizza gets stolen) we might hear about it.
Spiers’ story gained national attention because Spiers was armed – legally, of course. And it didn’t seem to matter that food delivery had been named among the nation’s most dangerous jobs by the Bureau of Labor Statistics or that robberies are so commonplace we barely bat an eyelash over them anymore, there was still a typical “ohmigod, I can’t believe the pizza delivery guy shot somebody” reaction.
Afterwards, Pizza Hut sacked the driver and made it official – employees are not allowed to carry guns even if they do hold a permit because sending them out there unarmed “is the safest for everybody.”
Dominoes apparently agrees and has the same policy in place.
Good thing too. When criminals can no longer commit an armed robbery without running the risk of getting shot by a non-criminal: this country is in a sad state of affairs. And shame on you people, who say those gun-toting thugs with the mile-long arrest record deserved it. Your lack of compassion for the plight of those misguided people is disgraceful, just disgraceful. I mean they were probably poverty-stricken and so forth.
So, anyway (and don’t tell the recently robbed Greeneville, TN driver… or this driver… or this one or this one…) but I support the Pizza Hut gun ban.
In fact, to make things even safer and ensure there are no misunderstandings, I think all pizza delivery vehicles should be required to prominently display this sticker:
