Well I certainly agree that property owners have a right to decide what they allow on their property. No reason the employees can't leave the weapon at home. This is not stopping anyone from hunting after work.
How about the New Hampshire resident that had a concealed carry permit, but worked in Massachusetts, he and 5 other people were killed in the work place?
Many employers can not protect employees on the job let alone to and from work !
I am sure A O L will protect their employees to and from work. (/sarcasm)
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You're confusing corporations with people. A corporation does NOT have the same Rights as an individual that owns property.
Keep in mind that the primary reason corporations were founded was to avoid individual responsibility. With Rights comes responsibitlies, and corporations want the best of both worlds. Screw them.
No reason the employees can't leave the weapon at home
Should they leave their Bibles at home also? Or any other items that some company bozo might find offensive. People have a Right to have whatever they like in their private vehicle.
THIS AIN'T ABOUT HUNTING!!!!!!! And yes, I was shouting!!!!! It's about my personal right to self defense to and from work or any other place I may be!
And keep your SUV, cell phone, fast food off my parking lot.
Don't you see a connection with your freedom to defend yourself and the erosion of your abilty to choose what you can own?
I can cause more lethal damage with my "unarmed" automobile, than I have ever caused with my unseen thigh holstered gun.
I prefer my gun, for accuracy, but if all I have left for self defense is the overwhelming force of my automobile, well, don't come asking for insurance damages if you are inadvertantly injured while I defend myself with the only means you think I should have immediately available.
Do you feel safer now?
I am a much better shooter with a gun than I am with my car...
True, but it is stopping from defending themselves on the way to and from work.
Some people exercise their right to carry firearms as a means to defend themselves.
Exactly. I'm a strong proponent of the 2nd Amendment and the RKBA but AOL is within its rights to keep guns off its property. It may be idiotic, misinformed, or counterproductive but if private property rights mean anything, its the ability to control the use of the property as you see fit. And your employees ought to abide by your conditions or if they think they're too onerous, nothing is stopping them from seeking work with a company that is more gun-friendly.
"This is not stopping anyone from hunting after work."
what does this have to do with hunting???? that drives me nuts when someone argues the right of gun ownership is dependent upon is relation to 'hunting'.