{"id":82945,"date":"2018-11-18T14:43:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T18:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=82945"},"modified":"2018-11-18T14:43:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T18:43:18","slug":"crime-plummets-after-quiktrip-stores-add-good-guys-with-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82945","title":{"rendered":"Crime Plummets After QuikTrip Stores Add Good Guys with Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ggwg-e1542566346991.jpg\" alt=\"good guy \" \/><br \/>\nAwr Harkins<br \/>\n<strong>QuikTrip convenience stores added good guys with guns in Wichita, Kansas, and the results were so good that they are expanding the program to stores in other areas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The NRA noted, \u201cAfter implementing the new strategy at its Wichita, Kansas locations and seeing success, QuikTrip, the massive gas station and convenience store chain said it would expand the policy to other stores.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KWCH reports that the good guys with guns will be armed security, but QuikTrip also left the door open to armed clerks in situations where the clerks \u201chave previous experience and necessary licenses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>QuikTrip stores in Tulsa will soon get good guys with guns, as those stores are the targets of repeated crime.<\/p>\n<p>KTUL spoke with QuikTrip\u2019s Mike Thornbrugh about adding good with guns in the Tulsa area. He said, \u201cThe police and sheriff\u2019s department has bent over backwards to help us, and we really appreciate it. But there\u2019s simply not enough of them to make a dent. That\u2019s where the armed employees come in.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Imagine my surprise. The rest of the article may be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2018\/11\/18\/crime-plummets-after-quiktrip-stores-add-good-guys-with-guns\/\">Breitbart News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awr Harkins QuikTrip convenience stores added good guys with guns in Wichita, Kansas, and the results &hellip; <a title=\"Crime Plummets After QuikTrip Stores Add Good Guys with Guns\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82945\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crime Plummets After QuikTrip Stores Add Good Guys with Guns<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}