https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/10/jury-finds-unlawful-bias-one-armed-security-guard/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:34:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/10/jury-finds-unlawful-bias-one-armed-security-guard/comment-page-1/#comment-310902 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:34:20 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=49100#comment-310902 Doesn’t the weapon count as his second arm? or does he have to wear two guns for that?

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/10/jury-finds-unlawful-bias-one-armed-security-guard/comment-page-1/#comment-310502 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:21:51 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=49100#comment-310502 Dumb crook might see one armed security guy as a push over.
But in reality, one armed man who is armed with a gun will of necessity be much more likely to shoot early precisely because he cannot afford to get into a hand to hand tussle.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/10/jury-finds-unlawful-bias-one-armed-security-guard/comment-page-1/#comment-310487 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 13:39:54 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=49100#comment-310487 Having worked as a security guard, I’d say that it would depend on what his assigned duties were. I started as a door greeter at a department store and finished up as an armed guard at a shelter for battered women who faced a severe threat from their abuser. I’d see no problem with an one armed person working several of the positions that I held, not so with some of the others.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/10/jury-finds-unlawful-bias-one-armed-security-guard/comment-page-1/#comment-310445 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 07:29:03 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=49100#comment-310445 The guy was apparently guarding a “community association,” probably standing in a little booth at the front gate of a gated community in Florida. Seems like a job that can reasonably be done with one arm, and apparently the jury agreed.

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