Papa John's Pizza-Delivery Lady May Get Fired for Gunning Down Armed Robbers

She was delivering pizzas in DeKalb County, when an armed man cornered her and ordered her to the ground. But she fired back, as she had her gun, and shot the man on Sunday night, according to ijreview.com.

Donquaz Devon Stevenson, one of the suspects, was identified nearby with a gunshot wound on his face. He was also arrested and charged with armed robbery, as the DeKalb jail records show. Another suspect soon left in the delivery driver's silver 2000 Honda Accord.

However, the woman faces another problem. Her employer, Papa John's, may fire her as she was armed---even if it helped her in self-defence. Papa John's is calculating the financial rewards of

As ajc.com puts it: "... companies like Papa John's have done the cold, hard analysis and have determined that is is cheaper to deal with drivers injured or killed in robberies than it is to deal with the possibility of litigation if one of their employees shoots someone and the company's policies allowed them to be armed."

What makes the issue more contentious is that delivery robberies as well as deaths are becoming rampant. A US pizza delivery person is actually facing a dangerous job. Last month, there were reports of a shooting death of an unarmed delivery man and another woman paralyzed by a shooting.

Most of the Papa John's employee handbooks in the country laid out the rules precisely: "Never carry any kind of weapon on your person or in your vehicle."

However, there is a small catch here. The woman was defending herself, and the only option she had was to protect herself or get fired by Papa John's.

Papa John's has discovered an important source of piling up the big, green bucks, and launching legendary football careers through television commercials. However, isn't life more important, as the woman demonstrated?