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One of the most concise arguments on the current debate in Oklahoma over the right of employer to set policy regarding weapons on their property that I have found on the web.
1 posted on 12/16/2004 6:17:57 AM PST by Luis Gonzalez
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To: Luis Gonzalez

IMHO,I'd rather be fired than dead.


2 posted on 12/16/2004 6:18:46 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
The Pizza Hut employee should file a work comp claim with Pizza Hut. PH screwed him big time by firing him. And he will have stress problems, self esteem problems, and probably an inability to delvier pizzas at night for the rest of his life. PH didn't play fair and now he needs to hit them where it hurts.

My spouse used to be a work comp underwriter. One client had a guy who did not like his job review, got a gun, and proceeded to pop a cap in his boss & the bosses boss. Guess of those three who was the first to fire a work comp claim AND GET PAID! The guy with the gun.

4 posted on 12/16/2004 6:23:38 AM PST by pikachu (The REAL script)
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To: Modok; BOOTSTICK; jwalsh07; Torie

PING!


17 posted on 12/16/2004 6:47:23 AM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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To: Luis Gonzalez

The guy shot him ten times; isn't that overkill? Wasn't he dead enough after 2-3 shots? Maybe he's a real poor shot...


30 posted on 12/16/2004 7:37:23 AM PST by Nuzcruizer
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To: bigsigh

What?

No pearls of wisdom from you?


58 posted on 12/16/2004 2:32:35 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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To: Luis Gonzalez

Strangely, the guy in question wasn't even on Pizza Hut property at the time of the incident. At least that's the way I read the story.


64 posted on 12/16/2004 4:11:30 PM PST by flada (My other tagline is a Mercedes Benz.)
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To: Luis Gonzalez

Where does the employers rights end? Can he demand that you submit to cavity searches, strip searches, Sexual intercourse?????
I would think that your parked car would be private property and that he could not require you give you give up your rights. If they brought in a drug sniffing dog and it alerted authorities to a particular car. Would the authority to search without consent be due to law enforcement activities or the employer's property rights?
I find it hard to believe that liberal judges are willing to support the rights of terrorists to kill us but you don't support the right to self defense.


91 posted on 12/17/2004 5:21:27 AM PST by BOBWADE
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To: Luis Gonzalez

When my boss(the owner of a small motorcycle accessory and service store)had me sign a paper wherein I acknowledged that if I were to be caught with firearms or ammunition for firearms I would be subject to immediate dismissal, I signed it in front of him while telling him that I would not be letting the "rules" of some wimpy liberal get me killed.

He has many times since seen firearms and ammunition in my possession at his place of business, and I still work there. Might have something to do with the fact that I could get a job in any other shop today. I feel sorry for people that work for large companies with guard gates and moronic policies against personal protection.


121 posted on 12/17/2004 8:43:31 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Maybe godless liberalism doesn't belong in science class. ><BCC>)
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To: Jeff Head

As a passionate advocate of both Second Amendment rights and property rights, I'd be interested to know what your take on this article is.


141 posted on 12/17/2004 9:52:07 AM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
I remember reading an article that stated that 83% of convenience store employees that were killed in robberies DID NOT RESIST! So if I am working as a convenience store clerk, and my employer does not allow his employees to carry a weapon, i would disregard the employers company policy and carry anyway, however if my employer finds out that I am carrying he has every right to fire me, and I would except that firing without complaint.
217 posted on 12/17/2004 10:29:16 PM PST by BOOTSTICK (MEET ME IN KANSAS CITY)
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To: Luis Gonzalez

A dangerous criminal, who has most likely threatened the life of other people, is dead and no longer a danger to society. The criminal would have continued to do what he was doing until he got caught or killed. End of Story!!


290 posted on 12/20/2004 6:47:17 AM PST by SQUID
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To: Luis Gonzalez

An employer has a right to make any rules he wants on his property. A citizen has every right to work where he wants to if the employer will hire him and if he follows the employer's rules. That said, it is foolish for the employer to make no-gun rules. That postal fellow is not going to observe the no-gun rule when he brings his piece to the shop and he is more likely to think of doing it if he things no one else at the shop will be armed.


302 posted on 12/21/2004 5:01:33 AM PST by arthurus (Better to fight them over THERE than over HERE.)
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