Bears repeating.
The focus should be on property rights. In my opinion, if I own a parking lot, I should be able to determine what things are allowed on that lot and which things are prohibited. I am against state-imposed gun control, but if someone doesn't want firearms on THEIR property, they should be allowed to make that decision. No one is forcing anyone to work for am anti-gun private employer.
Great now the criminals just found them self some more easy targets for robbery, rape and mayhem.
Wow.. a Democrat that "gets it". Worth noting.
Some companies are saying that they have the right to restrict people from having guns in their cars that are *not* parked on company property.
And how upset would they be if, as I pulled in the gate, I handed the guard my weapon and asked for a claim-check?
What do the expect, people to toss it out the window before pulling in off the street?
This is NOT frivolous.
I lived a mile up a dirt logging road, 7 miles from the nearest hamlet, and 25 miles from the hospital in town where I worked. There was always a pistol, and often also a rifle, in the car...I had CCW and a hunting license, and often went shooting, hunting, or fishing after getting off work at 7 AM. A lot of the nurses and techs lived in the boonies, too, and darn sure did not drive to work at 11 pm unarmed, especially not after one was run off the road & raped one night.
What is kept in a locked vehicle is not the employer's business, nor anyone elses, as long as it isn't creating a public nuisance or public hazard.
To have to get off at eleven or three in the morning or go in for that matter and have to drive an hour or so to get to work or home with no protection in case of a break down .
Lots of times these jobs are in the worst part of town around docks and warehouses or you have to go through them to get there.
Then if you are single when you get home in the middle of the night and have to go inside your house where someone could be waiting between you and your gun.
It's awful easy for stalker to pattern someone who works regular.
This really stupid.
If a potentially violent employee knows that that many of his co-workers are armed and willing to stop him dead in his tracks...he very may well rethink his murderous plans and not go postal at Whirpool
The police (or perhaps just the police chief) agree with Whirl Pool's anti gun anti second amendment stand..
imo
Now, where's my Sig? (just kidding).
One of the best things governments do is control the actions of businesses. That is to say, prevent their being as nasty as they want to be.
I'd hate to have Oklahoma State law or the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution get in the way of Whirlpool Corp's standard company rules!
Try taking a gun to work at PSO. (Public Service Co of Oklahoma).
The parent company AEP (American Electric Power) absolutly forbids guns and knives.
Oddly enough, I'm going out this afternoon to look for a washer. Whirlpool just fell off the map.