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WEAPONS OF CHOICE
Pizza man saved by gun,
but fired for packin' heat
Prosecutors call it 'clear case of self-defense,' yet national
chain prohibits
carrying firearms

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Posted: June 1, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
A pizza deliveryman won't face charges for fatally shooting a
would-be robber
several times when he was approached in a high-crime area, but his
employer,
Pizza Hut, has fired him for violating a company policy against
carrying
firearms.

Ronald B. Honeycutt, 38, who has a permit to carry a concealed
weapon, says
he's been delivering pizzas for 20 years and has always packed heat on
the
job.

According to a report in the Indianapolis Star, prosecutors
announced Friday
the Carmel, Ind., man will not face criminal charges.

"It's a clear case of self-defense," Deputy Prosecutor Barb
Crawford said. "He
did what the law allows him to do to protect himself."


Jerome Brown-Dancler approached Honeycutt at around 11 p.m. on
May 17 just
after he had made a pizza delivery in Indianapolis. According to the
report,
Brown-Dancler pointed a 9 mm handgun at the Pizza Hut employee as he
was
entering his van.

Brown-Dancler's gun carried a loaded 14-round clip but had no
bullet in the
chamber, Crawford told the Star. When confronted, Honeycutt pulled his
own 9
mm from the back of his pants and fired until it was empty. He says he
fired
15 times in about eight seconds. An autopsy revealed Brown-Dancler was
hit at
least 10 times.

According to the report, Honeycutt insists Brown-Dancler didn't
fall until
after the last shot was fired.

"The guy kept standing. He knew he was injured when he fell,"
Honeycutt told
the paper. "His concern was he made an error, and the only thing he
could say
when I was grabbing his gun off the ground was, 'I just wanted pizza.'"

After the encounter, Honeycutt took Brown-Dancler's gun, fearing
it might be
stolen if it was left with the body. He got in his van, drove to the
Pizza Hut
restaurant where he worked and told his manager to call police,
Crawford said.


"This was late at night. This was a high-crime area," Crawford is
quoted as
saying. "He left because he wasn't sure whether or not Brown-Dancler
had any
friends with him. As it turns out, he did indeed have friends with him.
They
left when they heard shots fired."

Honeycutt says he plans to find another job delivering pizzas.

"Other criminals better think twice, because I'm going back out
there," he
said, "and I know I'm not alone in the way I think about this."

Some Pizza Hut customers have complained to the company after it
fired
Honeycutt.

"I hope those of you in the media will realize the incredible
unfairness of a
huge company telling its employees - in essence - they must agree to
die for
the company rather than use legal reasonable means to defend
themselves," Rick
Whitham, an Indianapolis attorney, told WND. He says he saw Pizza Hut's
action
as "clear discrimination against those who choose to lawfully exercise
a
legal, heavily regulated right."

Whitham wrote to the company: "I don't spend my money with
businesses that
openly discriminate against people such as myself who understand that
the
police have no affirmative duty to protect any particular citizen and
that no
company is worth dying for - particularly yours."