Why are you afraid of your employees?
That's bulls#it.
Defending my rights as a property owner from being infringed on by the government at the bequest of the mob is not being afraid of anyone.
I stand on the side of property rights with people in this like Jeff Head, joannief, and B4Ranch...hardly a crowd who is associated with big government statists and gun grabbers.
When you reach the edge of my property, be that my home, my parking lot, or my place of business you have choice; enter my property under my terms, or don't accept them and not enter; your rights have not been infringed.
When you reach the edge of my property, receive my terms, and decide to use the force of government to impose your terms on my property, my rights have been violated, AS HAVE YOURS.
If a right is violated for one, it is violated for all.
If I fear something, I fear the notion from some, who believe themselves to be conservatives, who claim that we live in a democracy, and advocate the force of government being utilized to violate the individual rights of the few, at the bequest of the mob.
On the debate over who is right and who is wrong here, one side is standing on one of the most basic traditional of conservative values...the right to what is mine own.
"The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property." -- Karl Marx
"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence." -- John Adams
These two quotes, from the father of Communism and a Founding Father, summarize the conflict between competing ideologies. Private property rights are the cornerstone of liberty and freedom, and the forces of socialism and collectivism seek to crack that foundation. -- Source
Who is using the pen to abrogate a right here?
Is it me who is giving you the choice of entering my property on my terms, or not entering my property on yours, or is it you who is using the force of government to enter my property on your terms, and against my expressed wishes?
You want to infiringe on my right to property in the name of your right to park conveniently.
I stand on the side of individual rights, you are standing on the side of collectivism.