When a neighbor screamed she’d been shot, Colin Bruley grabbed his shotgun, found the victim and began treating her bloodied right leg.

Tonnetta Lee survived Tuesday’s pre-dawn shooting at her Jacksonville apartment, and her sister and a neighbor praised Bruley’s actions. But his employers, the same people who own the Arlington complex where Bruley lives, reacted differently. They fired him.

Read the rest of the story here at the Florida Times-Union, hat tip to The Freehold

The Federal Government has taken it upon itself to insert itself into the employment process to such a degree that you can’t be fired if you’re an alcoholic in some cases. But this guy does a stand-up job and helps protect his neighbors and he gets fired for it? Typical. But should he get his job back? Should he sue? I don’t think so. Why would you want to work for someone who is going to treat you that way? I’m sure there are lots of Employers who would be happy to have an upstanding guy like Colin Bruley working for them. Working for someone is a temporary arrangement, it can be severed by either party for any reason at any time. I don’t believe an employer has the right to force you to continue to work and you don’t have the right to force an employer to continue to employ you. Its a two-way street. Or at least it ought to be.