You're assuming that some AOL executive dreamed this up as a personal preference. I have a strong feeling it was their insurance company, as in "You liability rates are going to be sky high unless you ban guns on company property"
The company I work for has a similar printed policy of no guns on company property, including parking lots. I strongly think the insurance industry is putting them up to it, in which case the proper target is the insurance company
Actually, I think that most large companies are self-insured. But I'll address your point anyway.
First, an insurance company does not have the authority to deprive you of your Rights. Theoretically, all the insurance companies could demand that we turn in all or guns, and put cameras in our houses, connected to a central monitoring station; or they would charge us a billion dollars for the policy.
Secondly, the insurance company is essentially saying that they value a few dollars more than human life. Any decent man or woman should be totally repulsed by that ideology, and should make them pay $$$$$ out the nose if they are ever on a civil jury in judgement of such a company.
I strongly think the insurance industry is putting them up to it, in which case the proper target is the insurance company
If the insurance company conspired with AOL to create this policy, then they are BOTH engaging in a federal felony (deprivation of civil Rights).