| DQ Robbed, Manager Shot |
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| Written by Daniel White | |
| Wednesday, 10 September 2008 | |
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In what seems to be a growing trend of restaurants being targeted by robbers, a Columbus Dairy Queen was robbed yesterday at around 8:30pm. After hitting a 16-year-old cashier in the head with his gun, the robber confronted the manager and shot him in the stomach before making off with an undisclosed amount of cash. The manager is currently hospitalized in stable condition. It is not being reported if either the manager or the cashier resisted, but this is yet another example of criminals having no concept of the value of human life and no reservations about shooting unarmed victims. With the increased incidents of restaurants being targeted and employees and customers being threatened, injured, or killed, it is time to amend Ohio law to remove restaurants which serve alcohol (regardless of whether you are actually drinking any alcoholic beverages) from the list of places where CHL holders are disarmed. Forty-one states have no such total prohibition, and Ohio should join them. An astute reader has pointed out that Channel 10 is running a photo of this DQ in question which clearly shows a "no guns allowed" sign being displayed. Could it be that this location was chosen because the robber knew his victims would be disarmed?  |