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Gee, ya' think? One really funny thing is that history will probably remember this as The Johnstown Massacre! It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

Most times where the gunman tries to bring you some place else in the place, like the back of the store, they are going to kill you. That is complete BS!! ________________________________________________ Well, I don't think MOST times when they take you someplace else they are going to kill you but that possibility would sure be in the forefront of my mind. I also don't believe it's TOTAL BULLSHIT, because it's has happened. ___________________________________________________ Having been in a couple armed robberies when I worked in a convenience store, I can tell you that all the robber wants is the money. The faster you give it to them the faster they will leave without hurting anyone. Compliance puts the odds in your favor! It's terrible you had to go through that. I am glad you lived through it. I can't agree that all they want is money or drugs or whatever. It's probably all they are going to do.....probably. but there is a great deal of uncertainty in a situation like that. The guy that tried to run away could have been shot in the back just as easily. There is no way to tell for sure. I don't think you can really be so certain compliance will put the odds in your favor. The guy with the gun has all the odds in his hand. __________________________________________________ Every retail company I've ever worked for has always had similar non-escalation policies. Walgreens has every right to terminate this employee for violating company policy and potentially exposing the company to severe civil liability in the millions of dollars. If non escalation is Walgreens policy then the guy who tried to run away escalated the situation by not complying. He should be terminated too. Robberies involving homicide are a miniscule (i.e. extremely rare) fraction of armed robberies. In 2009 the US NCI reports 408,217 robberies vs. 15,241 murders; and I would guess that a majority of the murders were not committed during robberies. In other words, your odds of surviving a robbery are at least 26 to 1. The odds of surviving a gun battle during a robbery have to drop to at best 1:1 (evening up the odds as they say) and far lower if there's more than one armed robber. Trying to be a hero during a robbery is outright stupidity. The incidents of employees being murdered during a robbery is very low, if they are sequestered anywhere in the store it's most likely just to keep them from calling the police. It's much more likely you'll end up locked in a walk-in freezer or storeroom than dead, which is why I said the opposite is BS. And, it's even more likely you'll just be told to lay on the ground and count to one hundred. Another aspect of non-escalation policies is that company policies often warn employees not to call the police or sound any silent alarms while the robbers are still in the building. The last thing you want to do is have a hostage situation if the police show up too soon. The business' primary concern is for the safety of employees and customers, not stopping the robbery or catching the crooks. The business has far more to lose if someone gets hurt that what gets stolen. No doubt the employee here made a rational decision about whether or not to bring a gun to work, what are they going to do, fire me? Well, yes! It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

I think it was "As soon as we get home, I'm gonna punch your momma in the mouth." "Shut up, one shit at a time!" "You sounded taller over the radio." "Do the letters F-O mean anything to you?" (Burt Reynolds) "Cowboys love fat calves!" (Burt Reynolds) It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

The funny thing is I agree with the poll's conclusions, although it shouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. People who attend church regularly are more likely to believe in Creationism. Well, duh! People with more education are more likely to believe in evolution. Well, duh! I also agree with you about the possible responses. What would an Agnostic who believes that the creation of the universe is outside the comprehension of humans answer? Other? It could theoretically be evolution with or without God. It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

You base that on what? Your gut feeling truthiness? A sample size of 600 is actually sufficient for their confidence levels and interval. Take some stats classes. Yeah, you got me there on the size of the whole sample. Did you bother to read the rest of my post? They would still need a sample of 600 respondents for each subgroup. That means at least 600 men and 600 women - they didn't have both. Did they have 600 people from each region? Did they have 600 people with postgraduate degrees? Did they have 600 people who attend church weekly? Did they have 600 Republicans, 600 Democrats, and 600 Independents? The overall sample of the poll is large enough as a whole, but as soon as it gets broken down into subgroups the smaller sample size creates a larger margin of error. To quote Gallop, "For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points." The subgroups most likely have a much larger margin of error, which means that comparisons between the subgroups are going to be less accurate. It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

What do you base that on? After reading their methodology and sampling technique, I feel it's an adequate poll. The poll's methodology is a joke! It's not a scientific survey, period! Again. That's what you claim. Saying "it's a joke" doesnt say why you think it is. Care to explain why you think it's a joke? First of all, if you read the methodogy information on the website it doesn't even make sense. From what I can tell they had a total sample of 1,019 respondents of which at least 850 were contacted by landline phone and at least 150 were contacted by mobile phone. The overall sample is too small. Then they took that too small sample and broke it down by gender, age, race, education, region and phone lines. So assume for a moment that gender was split 50/50, that means that approximately 510 men/women were asked to speak for all of the men/women in the United States, That makes it a joke right there - "95% certain of a +/- 4% error"? Yeah, right! It sounds like they're just giving the margin of error for the sample group not the population. Now apply the same thing to race which wasn't even reported. How many whites, blacks, hispanics, native americans? The sample sizes are getting smaller and more useless which is probably why they weren't reported. What about region? Could they have contacted any more than 200 people in each region? Could you do an effective poll in any one state with a sample of just 200 people, let alone an entire region? Would it really be that difficult for a college student doing a survey of fellow students to come up with 200 respondents regarding the college parking policy? It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

What do you base that on? After reading their methodology and sampling technique, I feel it's an adequate poll. The poll's methodology is a joke! It's not a scientific survey, period! It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

Most times where the gunman tries to bring you some place else in the place, like the back of the store, they are going to kill you. That is complete BS! Having been in a couple armed robberies when I worked in a convenience store, I can tell you that all the robber wants is the money. The faster you give it to them the faster they will leave without hurting anyone. Compliance puts the odds in your favor! Every retail company I've ever worked for has always had similar non-escalation policies. Walgreens has every right to terminate this employee for violating company policy and potentially exposing the company to severe civil liability in the millions of dollars. It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

I guess this was going to come sooner or later. Open-Carry It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

Well, yes! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGphGbJool4 It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

I say invalidate the list! There was not one quote from Smokey and the Bandit! Jackie Gleason is rolling over in his grave, did you feel the earthquake? It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

How the hell is she going to go to the clinic when the thread was started in February? It's a little late now isn't it? The OP needs to stop trying to play god with the world and mind her own business. It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

To use a term coined by President Nixon - "The Silent Majority"! No matter how offensive the actions of the WBC are the fact of the matter is that their cause is a popular one. A majority of voters in California passed Prop 8 because they believe in the same thing that the WBC does. Without the "conservative base" the WBC would just be a group of fringe lunatics, but they're not, they're just a symptom of a "silent majority" who while not supporting the method, do support the cause. The OP being a perfect example. It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

No, it is one family church in Kansas. It was one family church in Kansas that got Proposition 8 passed in California? In other words, right-wing bible-thumping conservatives HATE GAYS, and have chosen to VOCALIZE their HATRED FOR GAYS by picketing soldiers' funerals to spew their HATRED, and their HATRED for a country that has a Constitution that demands EQUAL PROTECTION for everyone. So, as a conservative you seem to be somewhat of a contradiction! You blast a Democratic governor (who since his election has become just about as middle of the road as a centerline stripe) for actually supporting the right of conservatives to exercise their right of free speech, even though he doesn't agree with what or how it's being said, solely because he believes that the Constitution is the law of the land. I'd say Gov. Brown has a much better idea of what his core values are than you do of yours. It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

It's not liberals who are doing the picketing at soldiers' funerals. It's the right wing anti-gay religious fanatics who vote for conservatives that are! It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

I couldn't see the crash for the trees! It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

Actually, the Aloha 737 that lost its upper fuselage was a known potential situation. Boeing knew about a defect in the sealing resins of early 737s and had issued service bulletins about inspections which the airline wasn't performing. The aircraft involved was well past its anticipated airframe cycle life and the lack of proper inspections allowed an unairworthy aircraft to continue in service until it finally failed. It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

OK, but what about grenade raffles? It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

$500 Jump Tickets It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

I have posed this exact question to an Army chemist who has been in research and development of Nuclear/Biological/Chemical warfare protection and decontamination for 35 yrs. My position has always been that a light a/c is the tactical equivalent of a VW Beetle. He totally concurred. Using a blistering agent one would have to fly very close to a very dense concentration of people, his example was the Million Man March on DC, to possibly injure a few people. Anthrax, Plague, Pox would be next to impossible to dispense enough spores in concentrations able to infect anyone. A tactical nuke might be somewhat effective if detonated above a tightly packed gathering. What pisses me off is that Homeland security is singling out General Aviation as a bigger threat than U-Haul. They have millions of us jumping through hoops, states and municipalities pissing money away on bogus security fences, ID checks, etc. They want to curb my freedom to make their jobs easier. They want to do that by making me and my little Cessna scary to the public. jon I agree completely! Instead of living in fear of the Al-Quaida Kamikaze Air Force, THAT DOESN'T EXIST, I say bring 'em on! I guarantee we'll win the war of attrition on that one. How much damage do you think that the REAL Japanese Kamikazi planes could have done to the US during WWII? Now compare a WWII Japanese plane to a light GA aircraft and there's no comparison in speed, weight, and armament, (i.e. destructive power). A GA aircraft is simply not an effective weapon or weapons platform. When that F-18 crashed into a residential neighborhood in San Diego, it took out ONE house! And an F-18 is a comparably massive airplane larger, heavier, and faster than a mid-size business jet. It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

You're probably thinking of a "Cuban Eight" which is an aerobatic maneuver. You'd definitely hear that over and over at an airshow. It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

In the US, not even 40% of mental patients have a mental illness! So in other words, the European mental health community is saying that mental illness is a huge economic burden so more money should be spent on it! Brilliant! It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

Combat Zone Landing Courtesy of the Blue Angels' C-130 "Fat Albert" As opposed to a "Tactical Approach" which is commonly referred to as an "Overhead Break". It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

And it's working marvelously for the FBI and Homeland Security. Just look over there at John and Quade shaking in their boots. It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

Where do you wear your earplugs? Your Eustachian tubes are in your throat right at the back of your mouth. Ear plugs work much better in you put them in your outer ear canals. What you don't want are ear plugs with an airtight seal, disposable foam earplugs will allow the outer ear pressure to equalize during the descent while still providing good hearing protection. If the inner ear pressure doesn't equalize then using the Valsalva technique (pinching the nose and blowing into the ears) will help balance the pressure. It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.