TOO YOUNG TO DIE AND TOO OLD TO TAKE A BUTT WHOOPING
In the 13 years that I worked at Stones River Mall I only had violent physical contact with two people. In both cases I was trying to help a police officer restrain someone that they were trying to arrest. There were many times that I felt physically threatened but everything turned out good in the end. I never liked the fact that we were unarmed working in a mall but mall management didn't want the liability of having armed security officers. I hate the gun free zone signs that are posted in malls and other business establishments. They are just an open invitation for a bad guy to shoot the place up. Buford Tune, a career Metro Nashville police officer and owner of APP's, Academy of Personal Protection once told me that there were more security officers killed in the line of duty each year than police officers. A friend that was in my guard unit for many years was working armed security in Antioch a few years ago when he and his partner was shot by a disgruntled former employ...