Well, the first thing if they wanted the Security Guard to be armed I'm sure they would have had to pay him more than the minimum wage they pay him now. Secondly if the bad guy was armed then the security guard would have been dead.

It seems the security guards are inadequately equipped and inadequately qualified. But this is how Wal-Mart Values its employees: Invest as little as possible in the workers in order to make the maximum profit possible from the Chinese products they sell.

Seriously, these security guards need to be trained to take a person out if being threatened with any kind of weapon... and why didn't they have a weapon? I mean, not even a stick? Some security... perhaps it was known the guards are "unarmed"... makes you wonder....

STOP,Thief!! BLAM-BLAM. That simple.

yeah, they could have pistol-whipped him real bad!

The security guards should have been armed with pistols!! Why? Because the criminal could have continued his attack and sliced them up!!