IFCU Credit Union Robbed by three armed thugs

[GONZO!!!]

The real issue here is that first Chicago was escalating beyond belief.....then Indy began and still is escalating the violence....now Lafayette is becoming increasingly more and more criminally active and criminally violent....

 

[Kirk Freeman]

now Lafayette is becoming increasingly more and more criminally active and criminally violent....

By what measure?

 

[Mark 1911]

How long will these businesses continue creating safe working environments for the thieves and inviting them in to conduct their transactions??

 

[Kirk Freeman]

How long will these businesses continue creating safe working environments for the thieves and inviting them in to conduct their transactions??

As long as it is profitable to do so. The robbers got a few K if that. Banning guns costs nothing (well, maybe the cost of stickers or signs for your branches), but the savings in civil litigation is vast when Cledus decides to coonfinger his pistolgun in the bathroom, or in line at the bank.

What is needed is strict liability, treble damages and awarding of attorney fees for premises that ban the carrying of firearms on their premises. This nonsense would stop overnight.

 

[13r14n]

- Getting really tired of Lafayette, it's turning into little Chicago.

 

[Frankingun]

I drove past the Credit union this morning.

The sign reads:

"NO WEAPONS PERMITED ON CREDIT UNION PREMISES, REGARDLESS OF PERMIT OR OTHER AUTHORIZATION".

Pretty silly sign.

So they upgraded the sign after the robbery?

 

[Leo]

frankingun, I do not think they changed the sign, it was a long time since I have seen it and I wanted to get the exact wording. The sign that was on the door when I checked looked to have been there a long time. I remembered it was worded really strangely.

 

[88GT]

Please don't be near me or mine when something bad is going down. I hope someone who will stand up will be there instead.

I'd just be worried about the imminent lightning strikes.

 

[Sling10mm]

So how would allowing civilians to carry firearms in the bank, have prevented the robbery?

An armed customer would have to have been in the bank at the same time. Said armed customer would have had to have been willing to use his gun against the robbers (e.g. feared for his life). Said customer would have to have been a good shot, to put down the armed robbers. Armed robbers would have to NOT have sprayed the bank and customers with bullets in response.

Why is it that too many gun owners think that they should/will act as police/superhero/"shepherd" in places where armed bad guys go? By all means use your gun to protect you and yours, but nobody is giving you a badge to act as saviors of strangers or to protect establishments from crime.

Like others have said, the point isn't necessarily an armed citizen taking action inside the bank, but the fact that the establishment is announcing to the criminals that they are less likely to be shot while robbing said establishment. Do you have a sign in your front yard that proclaiming that your home is a "Gun Free?"

 

[Bluejeeper]

Hmm, I was just at the IFCU main branch in Lafayette yesterday. I looked and looked and looked and didn't see any "no gun" signs. I OC'd and talked to 4 different people to get a new card made and nobody said anything