(Freeper Fire Mission!!!) Should folks with CCW permits be allowed to carry their weapons at work?

WSVM ^ | 02/28/2011 | WSVM

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[proxy_user]

No, when you are at work, you are subject to the rules of your workplace. They are paying you so that you will do as instructed. If you don’t like it, start your own business.

[Fpimentel]

Leave it up to the employer to decide.

[piytar]

I do. Even though my boss can be a real jerk, he let’s me.

PS I work for myself...

[piytar]

Funny you said that - see my comment #5...

[Red Badger]

only if you are the owner, or the owner doesn’t mind you doing so.....

[piytar]

“Leave it up to the employer to decide.”

Agreed, with one caveat: If some nutplace shoots up the business and it can be shown that the place was chosen at least in part because the nutcase knew his targets would not be armed, the employer should be subject to liability. Decisions have consequences. The decision to disarm people automatically makes those people more vulnerable, so that decision should carry the risk of liability for doing so.

[ThomasThomas]

Would you also hold him liable if the nutcase demanding to carry was the employee that shot up the place?

[grobdriver]

While I respect my employers rule against firearms (which I think is stupid) I do like the pending Texas state legistration to prevent them from disallowing firearms in the parking garage or lots. In effect that disarms me all week, going to and coming home from work, and anywhere inbetween I decide to go.
I'd like to be able to carry to work and lock the weapon up in the vehicle (our parking is in a garage and is pretty safe).

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Should folks with CCW permits be allowed to carry their weapons at work?

I carry at ALL times, even in church!

[Tijeras_Slim]

Although my employer prohibits weapons in the workplace, the NM Constitution considers one’s vehicle as the equivalent of one’s dwelling (extended domain). They tried to ban firearms in vehicles (headquarters is in CA), but after a spirited discussion with the head of corporate security they backed down.

[SampleMan]

That’s up to the employer. Your right to carry doesn’t trump your employer’s property rights.

[SampleMan]

Agreed, with one caveat: If some nutplace shoots up the business and it can be shown that the place was chosen at least in part because the nutcase knew his targets would not be armed, the employer should be subject to liability.

Negative. You knew the rules and YOU chose to comply. Yes, decisions have consequences.

"If some nut job" should never be the employer's liability.

[Tolsti2]

They should be required to post the same signs as any private business in Texas. A specific thing that bans it, publically and openly. Let them stand behind it, not hide it in some fine print.

[mylife]

Ultimately, you should be able to carry anywhere without restriction.

[bmwcyle]

Yes, they should. 114
81%
No, they shouldn’t. 27
19%

[OneWingedShark]

Far better question:
Should people who own firearms be allowed to take them to work REGARDLESS of whether they have a CCW permit or not?

[mylife]

You would be amazed at the amount of folks that carry in church.

Glocks keep ticking even after a baptismal.

[Felis_irritable]

...pending Texas state legistration to prevent them from disallowing firearms in the parking garage or lot...

This. Big time. Though I work with some real jerks, they're not even close to "shootable." I couldn't care less about carrying in the workplace.

However, a former co-worker was murdered in a carjacking on the way home from work. Stopped at a grocery store to get something and never made it home.

Happy ending: the murderer raised his weapon when SAPD SWAT raided his apartment. That was his last mistake. Saved the state the expense of a trial.