[Cincinatus' Wife]

I hope when a nut job comes out of the woodwork, someone with a concealed weapon takes him/her out.

This columnist needs a concealed brain permit.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

You see, if there are laws against carrying concealed weapons, no certified nut-job whacko who doesn't give a damn anyway will be able to carry one. And we'll all feel safer.

[Siouxz]

I hope this guy has a good supply of Depends. What a pee-in-his-pants little girly-man. Honestly, I thought it was satire at first.

[R. Scott]

We live in an imperfect world -- filled with very, very strange people who hear voices; who have issues; who really don't like you just ... because.

Yes, we do live in an imperfect world - and the writer thinks a company policy would prevent these people from bringing a weapon to the work place if intent on killing. Daniel Ruth seems to have an imperfect brain to go along with our imperfect world.

[kittymyrib]

Obviously, this pitiful writer has something to fear. He's the one in the office that everyone would like to kill.

[Tunehead54]

Read later bump. ;-)

[gridlock]

If somebody is intending to kill everybody in his workplace, a faded, rusted sign at the entrance to the parking lot declaring it a "Gun Free Zone" is not going to stop him.

OTOH, when he's advancing through the hallways, shooting everyone in his path, another employee who ran to get his weapon from the trunk of his car just might...

Or they could wait until the cops get off break to come and count the bodies...

[I still care]

This is the St. Petersberg Times - one of the most liberal messes of a paper you can find. Their front page read like a liberal editorial page sometimes.

The very last time I bought them their main editorial was how come people arent't paying more property taxes.

There is one reason for buying them - coupons. They do have good coupons. Sometimes I need the 40% one off at Michaels. But after that ed, I swore I would NEVER give them another cent.

This column is standard fare. The paper is horrible. Even my kids noticed that their pictures of Bush make him look as weird as possible.

[poobear]

"I hope when a nut job comes out of the woodwork, someone with a concealed weapon takes him/her out."

As I read this article, I became more paranoid of the writer than the subjects he was describing. Maybe it's just me. (right)

[Popman]

Daniel just needs something to talk about Saturday on his radio talk show. He thinks and positions himself a moderate on his show, but every once in a while his true liberal colors come out in full glory

[dawn53]

Boy, you had me scared for a minute, LOL.

I saw the link at the top to the SPTimes and thought they had hired Ruth (as if they don't already have enough libs on the staff, I hated the idea of them importing one from across the Bay.)

[Gorzaloon]

As I was reading this, I was certain it was some kind of parody from The Onion.

But as the absurdity grew and grew, it appeared that the writer had at least one year of journalism.

Journalism majors, as freshmen, have a DIN 25 plug pounded into the rear of their little heads, through which the Party Line of the Glorious Red Dawn is downloaded into their impressionable RAM.

Here is an answer I use, to which I have ever heard a good rebuttal:

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From the 1990's to the present, tens of thousands of people have had their life savings erased by corporate scammers, embezzelers, and other lowlives. Millions of others have has their lives disrupted or ruined by downsizing.

Jack Welch is still alive and well. Name any of these scumbags who have been taken out by our supposedly armed and dangerous society.

This is a tribute to the decency and self-restraint of the American Gun Owner.

[catmanblack.]

nobody has the right to tell me what i can keep in my vehicle if it is legal-he sure as hell is not going to do a search-what is this guy doing that makes him scared of people with guns

[two23]

Wow, that article was painful to read. I don't know how anyone with that much fear can wake up in the morning and function. He may want to ask his DR about anti-anxiety meds.
Its almost embarrassing to see a man cowering and squirming in fear so openly in public. You reckon he carries a white flag of surrender in his back pocket--just in case?

[AmericanChef]

-but a complete crazy nut job with a GUN certainly qualifies.-

Well...he didn't use his gun on you, did he? If a nut job wants to come in and start shootin', a little work rule isn't going to stop him. Apparently the writer thinks a law or a rule is all-powerful and that breakers will be struck down by lightening. Brilliant.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

An excellent response rarestia!
OLA

[Lazamataz]

Or, put another way, if you ever needed a reason to install the mother of all panic rooms, consider this certifiably insane statistic: At the moment, across our fair beloved state, there are 354,552 Floridians with concealed weapons permits walking among us. If there is such a thing as a retroactive, post-traumatic, primal scream/crawling into a fetal position/whimpering with delayed fear syndrome...

My L-rd. This man actually admits to wetting his Victoria's Secret panties.

[UltraKonservativen]

Translation:
People own guns = OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD !!!

[Lazamataz]

Come see the leg-warmer-wearing, panty-wetting little pillow-biter have a COMPLETE hissy-fit.

[Jet Jaguar]

Danielle, you need to re-tool your thinking.

[martin_fierro]

I invite this bozo to put his money where his mouth is.

He should post a large printout of this sign on his front lawn.