From Lonestar times:

Let's boycott Pizza Hut
Owen Courreges

Why boycott Pizza Hut? Because the company is run by a gaggle of gun fearing pansies who would rather see their deliverymen gunned down in the street than allow them to carry weapons to defend themselves with.
Case in point:

Ronald Honeycutt didn't hesitate.
The Pizza Hut driver had just finished dropping off a delivery when a man holding a gun approached him. Honeycutt wasn't about to become another robbery statistic. He grabbed the 9 mm handgun he always carries in his belt and shot the man more than 10 times, killing him.
Honeycutt faced no criminal charges because prosecutors decided that he acted in self-defense. But the 39-year-old did lose his job: Carrying a gun violated Pizza Hut's no-weapons rule.

This is insane -- Honeycutt would have died if he hadn't had that gun. So how can Pizza Hut defend it's asinine policy? The answer is, 'not very well:'

"Do you want your mail guy or delivery guy carrying a loaded gun when he comes to the door?" asks Patty Sullivan, a Pizza Hut spokeswoman. "What if he's not happy with his tip?"
Sullivan says the company takes a number of steps to help ensure drivers' safety.

If my mail guy or delivery guy qualifies for a concealed-carry permit, I don't care whether or not he's packing when he comes to the door. Statistically, concealed-carry holders are more law-abiding than the average citizen. So long as it's legal for them to carry, I really don't see the problem.
And more importantly, if Pizza Hut has hired anyone so mentally unstable that they'd shoot a customer for giving them a lousy tip, then they have far bigger problems than whether or not to permit their employees to carry firearms. Who are they hiring anyway -- Hell's Angels on crack? If this is the concern, then the insane, frothing-at-the-mouth delivery maniac could just as easily beat me to death with his shoes. You don't make policies based on the possible actions of mentally deranged.
Oh, and by all means tell Pizza Hut what you think of their stupid anti-gun policies with their feedback form here. I'm sure they'll love to hear from you.
[Hat tip: Clayton Cramer]

UPDATE: On his weblog InfOpinion, Robert French, a professor of public relations and multimedia at Auburn University, lodges a different view on Pizza Hut's decision to fire Honeycutt. I think it's more than a little silly:

I’m with Pizza Hut on this one. He had to be let go.
10 times? That means he (Ronald Honeycutt) emptied the clip. Fear is understandable. I have no idea how I would have handled it, were I in Ronald Honeycutt’s situation - except that it wouldn’t have been to shoot. I would not have been carrying a gun. There are a lot of reason why, but the first would be PIP IS A THREAD KILLER & - it is against company policy.

...And it follows that French_would_likely_be dead as a result. When somebody comes at you with a gun, there's a fair chance that you're going to be killed. Defending oneself is to be the only intelligent response, and that means stopping the assailant by any means necessary.
That's why this argument is completely irrational:

[I]t is up to the company to handle safety issues - not the employee. Pizza Hut and others must find new ways to protect their employees - regardless of the cost is requires. Let’s face it … pizza delivery is not vital to our economy. Cost cutting stops at safety. And we don’t need gunslingers delivering pizza.
This is a heartland (Indiana) instance, not ‘gunslinger’ Texas. Ronald Honeycutt was not charged. But, I’ll bet you that police do not want delivery drivers/cabbies, etc. carrying weapons PIP DID IT!!.
Neither the police nor the company can protect you if you are a deliveryman who is attacked. The police probably won't see it happening, and in any case, they are under no actual legal obligation to defend you. The company, likewise, can only create policies that minimize the risk, but they cannot eliminate it. When a person is attacked, nobody else can protect them but themselves. Self-defense is always a personal responsibility and an individual right. You can't pass the buck, and I don't care one whit what the police think about that. If they don't want law-abiding people to be able to defend themselves, then frankly, that troubles me. It's nobody's concern but mine BUT BLAME PIP!

http://www.lonestartimes....86,0,0,1,0


Folks have a right to protect themselves!

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