{"id":22986,"date":"2011-09-19T05:57:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T10:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=22986"},"modified":"2012-01-04T17:31:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T23:31:59","slug":"adios-walgreens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=22986","title":{"rendered":"Adios Walgreens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: \u00a0Walgreens<br \/>\nFrom: Mitch Berg, Former Customer<br \/>\nRe: So Long, And Thanks For All The Drugs<\/p>\n<p>To Whom It May Concern,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a Walgreen&#8217;s customer for years now.<\/p>\n<p>No more.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, one of your pharmacists in Michigan <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/fired-walgreens-gun-toting-michigan-pharmacist-filled-robbers\/story?id=13705438\">opted not to be a victim of violent crime<\/a>\u00a0when two armed men charged him at 4:30AM.<\/p>\n<p>Your pharmacist, Mr. Hoven, responded correctly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Drawing his own gun, Hoven fired at the attackers and drove them off, saving not just himself but two Walgreens co-workers as well as the pharmacy&#8217;s valuable prescription drugs.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6cGYpxH4QJE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By way of saying thanks, Walgreens fired him.<\/p>\n<p>Hoven, in an interview with the Benton Township Herald-Palladium, said he had acted out of fear. &#8220;The adrenaline was taking over,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You could have probably taken my pulse from my breath, because my heart was beating that much.&#8221; Only 42 seconds elapsed, start to finish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, Walgreens, your store has a &#8220;no weapons&#8221; policy &#8211; which says, in effect, that your superstition about gun owners is more important to you than your employees&#8217; lives.<\/p>\n<p>While I respect the rights of employers to set conditions on employment, this is an unreasonable requirement for a law-abiding, legally-permitted citizen. \u00a0Legally-armed, law-abiding Americas <em>are better Americans<\/em>, better citizens, better employees and better risks, at large, than the unarmed ones (and especially the illegally-armed ones).<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, until Mr. Hoven is re-hired, and restitution paid for his firing (last May), I will never spend another dime at Walgreens, and I&#8217;m going to convince as many people as I can to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n<p>Mitch Berg<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: \u00a0Walgreens From: Mitch Berg, Former Customer Re: So Long, And Thanks For All The Drugs To Whom It May Concern, I&#8217;ve been a Walgreen&#8217;s customer for years now. No more. Recently, one of your pharmacists in Michigan opted not to be a victim of violent crime\u00a0when two armed men charged him at 4:30AM. Your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22986"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22989,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22986\/revisions\/22989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}