74-Year-Old UBER Driver Shoots Passenger After Being Attacked, Just Weeks After Company Bans Firearms On The Job
Via Brandon @ Concealed Nation
Back in April, an UBER driver used his firearm to successfully stop an attempted mass shooting. Then, just a few weeks ago, the company made adjustments to their firearms policy with an outright ban.
The driver, Steven Rayow may have been killed if he followed the newfound UBER policy banning guns. Instead when this 74 year old man was being choked out by passenger, 60 year old Marc Gregory Mermel, he reached for his concealed carry weapon which he was legally carrying under Florida Law and shot the attacker in the foot ending the exchange.
This was a very unfortunate move on the part of UBER and one that was obviously motivated by greed rather than an attempt to make the driver’s that contract with UBER safe. These companies that make these decisions seem to do so to avoid liability in the future which to me shows that they put no real value on the safety and the lives of these contractors.
The UBER ban on guns comes at a very turbulent time in our country, at this time we are seeing more attempts by our government and these hateful gun-control groups to completely destroy The Bill Of Rights but not in its entirety only the sections that do not sit well with them. This type of fearful thinking is very clearly the thinking of a very emotionally immature group of people who seek to control others due to their lack of control in their own lives.
For companies like UBER who want to insert themselves into this turbulent gun-rights debate, I think it is important to question what the motives are. For UBER the motive is quite obviously liability, the company has suffered from several liability issues already and the safety of their drivers is clearly not as important to them as it is to avoid a law-suit. This is even more apparent when you look at the good an UBER driver did in Chicago.
With shootings on the rise in our cities it is important for these drivers to have the ability to defend themselves, that is the liability that UBER should be concerned about.
