I assume the term "guns-at-work" was selected by opponents of the bill? It certainly gives a different impression from "guns locked in your car."
GOOD! My Life Membership fee is being put to good use. Thank you, and I AM THE NRA!
Ugh....can they at least get past the very first line before they try to, IMHO,scare the uninformed?
Disney is not a Republican company. That's one of the reasons this law is needed.
...In a telling sign of wariness, neither Gov. Jeb Bush, Senate President Tom Lee nor House Speaker Allan Bense are taking positions on the bill yet....
Wariness?
That's a big yellow stripe down their backs that's showing.
It was a pretty conservative paper. Maybe it has changeed or maybe just the writer wanted to create a little controversy with title.
Suppose an employer tried to tell it's workers they couldn't keep a bible locked in the trunk of their car while on the job. Would that be acceptable to large numbers of people? How did the first amendment become more important than the 2nd?
A different approach would be to have automobiles declared as an extension of the home. Anything you could lawfully posses in your home would thereby be legal to possess in your vehicle, regardless of it's location.
In this way, the rights of private proprietorships to control their parking areas would be preserved, but corporations would be required to be "good citizens" who do not infringe the right to keep and bear arms.
This would seem to be a small price to pay for the substantial benefits which incorporation provides and it is completely consistent for the legislature to dictate what benefits and requirements attach to incorporation.
If a privately run hardware store wishes to disarm me in their parking lot but Home Depot is forbidden to do so, I know where I will choose to shop.
If I own the business, I ought to be able to set the rules, even stupid rules like no guns in the workplace including vehicles parked on my lot. If you don't like the rules, then go find another job, or better yet, start your own business with your own rules.
It is absurd to ban commuters from having guns in their glove compartments. Especially when busiensses are already shielded from legal liability should those guns be misuesd.
About Allen Bense, it's too bad he decided to not run for the U.S. Senate next year.
I interpret this to mean that these two are inclined to support their heavy contributors (who are concerned about their insurance premiums and little else), and the voters who put them into office be damned. They're just looking for a way to do it that doesn't draw a lot of attention. We're going to have keep the heat on, and their feet to the fire, or we'll be sold out.
Your points are well taken, but IMO, the NRA, of which I am a life member, is coming down against the side of property rights on this matter.
The premises of "big businesses" are private property and thus, what is allowed on those premises should, in a free country, be at the discretion of the owners. The NRA is falling into the liberal trap of thinking that the existence of businesses is justified by the fact that they fulfill a public service of some kind when in fact their existence is justified by the fact that they make money for their stockholders.
It may be the "right" decision in this case to allow workers to bring firearms onto private property, but it's not a good idea, in a free country, to give great power to government in order that it force everyone to do what for the moment strikes politicians as "right." Once it can force employers to allow employees to bring guns in, it could equally well force employers to prohibit such.
The point is that such things should be at the discretion of the property owner, not the government.
It's a mistake IMO. Private property is private property. Companies should and do have the right to set the rules for their property.
I am always amazed that people object to me carrying a gun, with a permit that means I have never had a run in with the law, at 56 years old. No one in America cared that at 22 with an 18 year old driver, I went up and down the highway in Germany with a side arm, a M-16, and NATO CRYPTO for a Pershing nuclear missile platoon with three launchers and nine rockets.
I'll carry my gun where I damned well please. If it's in my car, Disney and the rest of those whining Jackass lovers can KMA.
bump. Meanwhile, in NJ, we still have to ask the government's permission to purchase a pistol.
If this is truly about whether employees of a company can keep guns locked in their cars while on company property, then its a moot issue. Shall Issue CCW is the law in Florida. Unless these companies want to install guards and gates and then engage in [and pay for] car searching of each employee each and every day, then they cannot control who carries what onto company property. In effect, these companies would become little police states. Not good business. The only companies that could do such things are those involved in serious DOD work. I imagine they already have high security levels and they probably employ armed guards. Disney sure doesn't fit that bill.
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