Sunday, July 13, 2014

Target's Gun Control Request Backfires


By: Jessica Swords
Sunday, July 13, 2014


Just a few days after “respectfully requesting” that customers not bring in their firearms to nationwide store locations[1], Target has had two armed robberies in Georgia[2].

The request came just two days after new gun laws went into effect in Georgia, a law which allows citizens to carry inside more places such as unsecured government buildings, bars and participating churches. Within days of this request, a man was robbed at gunpoint by three men[3]. Xavier Holland, 21, Zaccari Goudelock, 20, and Kenneth Loving, 17 had stolen more than $500 cash from the victim[4]. The three suspects, who are currently being held in Hall County Jail, were denied bond. No reports indicate whether or not the firearm taken from one of the suspects was purchased legally or not.

In the second case, a woman in Atlanta was attacked by an African-American man who knocked her to the ground and robbed her[5]. Reports say that had the victim not rolled out of the way, the suspect would have run over her when putting her car in reverse and speeding off[6]. It has not been reported whether or not the suspect has been identified or is in custody.

Such events make one wonder whether or not Target made the right decision in requesting that their customers disobey themselves. The company has already been under fire in the last 8 months due to its inability to keep its shoppers’ credit card information private after its system was hacked and thousands of customers’ identities were stolen.

                                Photo taken from Houston Chronicle

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