Because – and I say this with all the deep respect you deserve – this is not the way to convince people to convert to the ‘religion of pieces.’
I dunno. Maybe they do things differently in Yemen. Almost certainly, in fact.
Two statements about the same guy…
“After conducting interviews with co-workers of Nolen’s, information was obtained that he recently started trying to convert some of his coworkers to the Muslim religion.”
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“he was terminated, he drove to the front of the business, running into a vehicle, exited his vehicle, entered the business, where he encountered the first victim, Colleen Hufford, 54, and began assaulting her with a knife. He did kill Colleen and he did sever her head.”
I’m gonna go ahead and class that as the sort of evangelism fail that might make people forget all about Swaggart and Bakker.
Oh, and also good guy with a gun stops bad guy with a knife. Though of course the newsies are going with ‘good guy was a reserve deputy,’ so he had been sprinkled with at least a pinch of Magic Only One Dust, which makes it all right.
Yeah, the pixie dust for CC “permit” holders gripes me as well. Sometimes you see it written as if the “permit” did the heroic deed all alone. And my question always is, “if he/she had not had a “permit,” they were required to submit and die quietly?
The tragedy here is that these women were quite obviously helpless victims. They had no chance to defend themselves, evidently. The guy with a knife might well have cut one or both of them, but if they’d been armed no “beheading” would have occurred.
If only the company had declared their premises to be a knife free zone then none of this would have happened!………………………
Just another example of workplace violence.
Every one one of these killings just makes feel sick, and so angry. When I heard about this one in OK, I really wanted to to confront my HR dept and demand to know how they would prevent something similar at our company. Because of course, the state, and the company prohibit me from carrying. I live over the state line where firearms are legal, but work in a nanny state.
But I’m sure our company policy and signs would stop a bad guy. No need to worry at all! We have a safe workplace !
Hence the expression, ‘Better tried by twelve than carried by six.”