Posted on 09/29/2014 7:07:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Vaughan Foods officer who used his gun to stop a beheading attack by a fired employee is protected by a controversial law affirming the right to bring firearms to work. Twenty-two states have followed Oklahoma’s lead.
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Vaughan Foods Chief Operating Officer Mark Vaughan, a reserve sheriff's deputy, used his personal handgun that he brings to work to stop a beheading attack by recently converted Muslim Alton Nolen on Friday in Oklahoma.
While police in Moore, Okla., have called Mr. Vaughan’s actions heroic, it’s also true that in some parts of the US he could have faced employer sanctions for bringing a gun to his job.
Oklahoma, however, is a pioneer in so-called “bring your gun to work” laws that have spread to 22 other states, mostly in the South and Midwest. The laws make it illegal for a firm to tell employees to leave their guns at home if they use a company parking lot. Some states, including Oklahoma, extend that protection into the workplace....
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Of course its workplace violence. Beheadings occur regularly in the workplace.
It’s Oklahoma.
You can take a gun pretty much wherever you want.
I’m from Cherokee County...
My employer bans guns in their premises.
Can’t ban what they can’t see.
Sounds like instead of people “Going Postal”, they’ll be “Going Muslim”.
There are many states and jurisdictions where you couldn’t take a gun to work even if your employer approved.
"Much like a private homeowner is able to tell his guests whether they can bring a gun into his yard, FedEx should have the right to decide what it will and will not allow on its private property," Mark Hogan, a vice president for security at FedEx Express told Tennessee lawmakers last year, according to the Wall Street Journal.
FedEx once had a disgruntled pilot employee who was going to be fired hitch a ride on one of their planes and attempted to hijack it and ram the plane into their data center. (This was even pre 9/11) Only heroics by the pilot saved the company.
Ping.
Makes you wonder why so many companies are moving to Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana doesn’t it?
“There are many states and jurisdictions where you couldn’t take a gun to work even if your employer approved.”
Please name them! Seriously, businesses are private property, if they allow their employees to bring guns I don’t see how any state can restrict them. My guess is that in some states, transporting the guns two and from the workplace might entail some following of state law. Ever walk into a gun store and NOT see all the guys and gals behind the counter armed? OTOH, most company “loss prevention” lawyers will be “counseling” their employers to not allow guns, pointing to the obvious liability if they are used inappropriately.
Like most of this crew would pay any attention to such silliness. I can always get another job. Not so easy get a new head.
Don’t take a knife to an Oklahoma gunfight.
It’s all about union control. If your state prevents you from defending yourself at work, you can THANK the police unions.
Thank God I live in a non-unionized state!
This delusional writer believes that defensive gun use in the workplace is morally inferior to the mass slaughter of innocents, and puts down the South for allowing DGU.
Similar to “Gun control: the belief that a woman raped & strangled with her own pantyhose is morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got those fatal bullet wounds.”
Where I work is a gun free zone and I’m not happy about it.
Hate to have to tell you, but they've been "Going Muslim" for a good while now...
In the 22 years I had my business, I never had a problem with employees CCW-ing. (Many customers did.) All I asked is that the employees let me know if they were, so I’d know where the firepower was in case something happened. I always CCW’d; some days open CCW’d.
“Of course its workplace violence. “
Let’s start calling the JFK assassination a “fender bender.”
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