In case you were curious, Peet's Coffee & Tea has gun sense.

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30. I totally agree and I carry. ...

It is quite possible that shooting at a robber may escalate the situation and more people might end up injured or dead than if the person with the concealed weapon merely observed and tried to remember details about the robber or robbers.

Unfortunately there are times when the robbery turns violent and clerks and customers get shot by the robbers.

This happened within walking distance of where I lived in Tampa.

In trial, a portrait of murder

By COLLEEN JENKINS
Published May 16, 2007

A witness provides a chilling image of the Subway killing of 2004.

A hooded man hovered behind Subway employee Danielle Miller. He pointed a gun, yelling for her to open the cash register. Freaked out, 22-year-old Miller fumbled with the touch screen.

She worked at the Town 'N Country sandwich shop to fund her education at the International Academy of Design & Technology. Just 26 seconds earlier, she had served her final customer his sandwich.

Now she couldn't open the register.

Girl, you're too slow, " the gunman said, according to a witness. "You gots to die."

He shot Miller three times. She fell to the floor.
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/05/16/Hillsborough/In_trial__a_portrait_.shtml

Once before another robbery ended tragically at a gas station connivance store within also walking distance of my home. In this incident the female clerk gave the robbers the money but they shot her to death as they were leaving the store.

Several years after the incident I pulled into this same station to fuel up my car and I didn't think anything of the police car by the entrance. When I tried to pump my gas, the pump would not function. A police officer appeared at the door of the store and yelled at me that a robbery had just happened and the pumps had been turned off.

The next day I stopped at the station and asked the clerk what had went down. He said, "Some kid walked in and pointed a gun at me. I gave him the money in the register and he left. No big deal."

Had I been inside the store a few minutes before I might have been in the middle of a bad situation. I would have calmly observed but if I had sensed that things were about to go seriously downhill or if the robber had shot the clerk, I would have been willing to use the snub nosed .38 revolver in my pocket to attempt to stop the robber.