detmunch, your life must pretty boring wherever you moved to to keep reading and commenting on a LV news website. Sad.

mred, get a life. Can't you come up with something more interesting than "libertoonians"? Lazy, good for nothing...

TheSerfAttack, you are a fool. Blame Vegas drivers? Blame Vegas? Get your glorious booty on a glorious plane and gloriously get outta town.

"Apparently the Sheriff doesn't have a negotiation proceedure."

If someone walks into my place of business, carrying a gun, refusing to leave the premises and acting erratically, the negotiation period is over.

Scott was asked to leave the private property of Costco with his firearm. He refused. According to witnesses he acted strangely after being asked to leave.

The "negotiation" was being asked to remove the weapon from the store or leave. He refused, and thus immediately recast himself as a threat.

The guy made his choices. Let it go.

Oh, vernos ... I hear you whining all the way over here. Stop being a victim and change your life!

Chunky is well past the age and psychographics of someone who would visit a nightclub. Chunky is a little sad that he no longer has "it" and cannot get into a nightclub in Vegas. Chunky is therefore celebrating that what he calls "pigs" are now poor. Does Chunky think that people with style and money will somehow acquiesce to his lame and boring lifestyle? Chunky should get back to reruns of Matlock, that's what RPJ thinks.

ls1, you are using my words incorrectly. Scott was told he was not permitted to have his gun on the premises. Any response from a CCW permit holder other than, "Oh, I'm sorry. I'll take it out immediately" is not only a violation of CCW training, it is also argumentative. An argumentative person with a weapon is a threat.

I will make the point very clear: If you come into my store carrying a weapon, and I tell you "Sorry, you cannot have that weapon in here. You will have to leave it outside the store," and your only response is to argue with me and refuse to remove the weapon, I will call the police and tell them exactly what happened, as well as take steps to protect my customers and staff. You have made yourself a threat with a deadly weapon, period.

MG it is NOT the resppnsibility of the store to post a sign regarding firearms. When they ask a CCW to remove the weapon, CCW training requires the carrier to comply. The onus is on the person carrying the gun. Costco is not a threat, a high person with a gun is.

Newcomer, that is essentially what I said above, but it makes too much sense for some here to grasp, evidently. It is an unfortunate situation, but to give the benefit of the doubt to an aggressively behaving person high on drugs and carrying a gun seems to be what some folks wish would have happened. Scott had the opportunity to deflate the threat by simply removing his weapon. His choice to refuse requests to do so, combined with behavior that would have had him under suspicion to begin with, created a no win situation for everyone.