The clerk shoots the kid in the head and runs after the other robber. He then calmly waddles back in, has a look at the kid once more, gets the other gun and returns to finish him off.

The crazy gun laws in the US permit people to carry them around for "self defense" -- but with one perpetrator off like a flash and one knocked out and bleeding out the linoleum floor, the clerk had succeeded in defending himself and his property. He should have ensured the wounded robber was unarmed and subdued and then dialed 911.

There was recently a case in BC where a McDonalds drive-thru was held up with a knife... a guy with a knife, sitting in his car, tried to demand money from the window. If they had taken a step back and pressed the "close window" button, they'd have been perfectly safe. Instead, one of the workers tossed a litre of boiling fryer oil on the robber's face. I thought that was excessive force also.