One way or the other, we suspect life is
about to change for the man who brought a firearm to his job at a Shell
convenience store in Nashua over the holiday weekend.
It turns out that Shannon “Bear” Cothran
used his legally-concealed handgun to scare off a would-be robber who
entered the store at 301 Main St. early Monday morning, threatened
Cothran with a knife and told him to empty the cash register.
The bandit fled the store when Cothran pulled out his gun, a Ruger LCP 380 handgun.
It kind of reminds us of the
“you-call-that-a-knife” scene in the movie “Crocodile Dundee,” but what
happened next is not funny, even if it does turn Cothran into something
of a celebrity among gun-rights activists.
His employer for the past 10 years, Nouria Energy, fired him for bringing a gun to work.
We wouldn’t encourage convenience store
clerks and those who work at Dunkin’ Donuts and other establishments
targeted by robbers to bring guns to work. But we can understand why
those who work the night shift, especially, might at least think about
it, given the frequency with which holdups have happened in the region
recently.
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