Green Lantern
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Found this in a sort of 'professional journal' that we get at the store. Decent article, though sorely "lacking" in some areas.
http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopic...Article/detail/469160?contextCategoryId=42806
Hm. I thought that in places besides Mike Bloomberg's Republic of NYC, carry permit's weren't that hard to get. And speaking of Bloomberg, I have a hard time believing that a mayor that does not want off-duty cops carrying would issue a permit to a pharmacist.
...then again, the cop only has his LIFE to protect from vengeful crooks, us people in the pharmacy profession handle a lot of MONEY.
Like one of Oleg's posters in summation: "Arm bank guards to protect money? OF COURSE! Arm parents to protect their kids? NEVER!"
And if you don't feel like reading the whole article: no, not a peep about how some of the packing pharmacists are almost certainly carrying against "company policy..."
ETA - not a dig against pharmacists that can and do carry for defense, good for them and all things considered they're smarter than those that don't in this day and age. It just irritates me that in some places you have to BE in a "special group' to get a permit.
http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopic...Article/detail/469160?contextCategoryId=42806
....The robbery problem in New York is such that many pharmacists there carry concealed weapons, according to Craig Burridge, executive director, Pharmacists Society of the State of New York (PSSNY). "Very few groups in New York can get a permit for a pistol, and pharmacists make up one of those groups," he said.
Hm. I thought that in places besides Mike Bloomberg's Republic of NYC, carry permit's weren't that hard to get. And speaking of Bloomberg, I have a hard time believing that a mayor that does not want off-duty cops carrying would issue a permit to a pharmacist.
...then again, the cop only has his LIFE to protect from vengeful crooks, us people in the pharmacy profession handle a lot of MONEY.
Like one of Oleg's posters in summation: "Arm bank guards to protect money? OF COURSE! Arm parents to protect their kids? NEVER!"
And if you don't feel like reading the whole article: no, not a peep about how some of the packing pharmacists are almost certainly carrying against "company policy..."
ETA - not a dig against pharmacists that can and do carry for defense, good for them and all things considered they're smarter than those that don't in this day and age. It just irritates me that in some places you have to BE in a "special group' to get a permit.