This is not just another story about a gas station clerk held up overnight and the police search for a suspect. It s also a story about a man who feared for his safety, saved his own life and lost his job. I d made a conscious decision to carry a weapon while I was working which blatantly violated company policy. I know this, I have accepted this, I m fine with this, said Shannon Cothran, whose friends call him Bear - not an unfair nickname.
What seems unfair to those friends and others is that Bear lost a job he held for 10 years because he was carrying a gun at work to protect himself.
life is threatened. would you go back and change your actions at all? it certainly seems possibly to have saved your life. what would you say to other people in similar situations that work these odd late-night hours? i would not go back and change my actions, but i would say if you are in a similar situation you need to weigh your decisions very carefully because there s always consequences to every action, whether it s a correct action, incorrect action, ambiguous action. there s always consequences. better to be unemployed than death. shannon cothran, thank you for joining us. i m impressed. good for you. i m sorry you were punished for it. you ve never had any trouble with the law. he had a permit to carry it. you re a criminal for defending yourself. ridiculous. a year later one of the fathers of the soldiers killed in benghazi finally getting a