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To: Sam Cree
I might go for it being illegal to not allow workers to have guns in their car if they are not warned. However, if the employee and the employer agree ahead of time that no guns in the car is a condition of employment, then I don't see the state taking the power onto itself to prohibit such an agreement.

Let's throw another monkey wrench into this mix. What about a business that's a really B-I-G corportation with LOTS of major stockholders and strong feelings on the issue? Say Disney makes this case (and they do) and all of their stockholders decide to bail. Is there a point where compromising your ideals makes better business sense? Then what? Talk about the sole proprietor. He owns say a hardware store in a medium sized community. He makes the same demand. His employees bail and make it an issue in the papers. The pro-gun elements put together an effective boycott. Now what? Stand firm and go out of business? You can BET that the competition will make statements to the effect of whatever way they can grab the business.

68 posted on 10/09/2005 6:31:46 PM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: ExSoldier
"Is there a point where compromising your ideals makes better business sense? Then what?"

Good point. My view is that we should bring pressure to bear through the market or through unfavorable publicity, those kinds of things. IIRC, it was done successfully against Citibank on the RKBA issue. They didn't want to do business with gunshops and suddenly found that they were going to lose a lot of customers because of that. They reversed course. Although IMO, Citibank didn't have to compromise any prinsiples, they just had to make a decision to forget political correctness for once. I can imagine that their decision, whichever way it went, was based on PR.

I don't see a boycott against Disney being effective though, because I doubt it possible to keep even conservatives away.

70 posted on 10/09/2005 6:40:34 PM PDT by Sam Cree (absolute reality)
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