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To: 1010RD
Which property right are you claiming to lose? I have seen the multitude of these threads where business owners claim that they lose property rights when someone else has a gun. The ‘right’ to control what goes on at your business? That right doesn't exist. Never has! You open up a business, you agree to abide by state rules on all manner of things.

Now, you may set up rules that your employees must abide by, but that ‘right’ is seriously restricted by the state. You cannot demand that females come to work topless, can you? So your ‘control’ is illusory at best anyway. And I have yet to see a rational argument as to how you ‘lose control’ of your property if people have personal firearms in their personal vehicles. You are claiming sovereignty over the property of others by dint of its mere presence in your ‘realm’. Again, you are swinging your fist. Your ‘default’ that you somehow lose your property if you cannot strip others of their inherent rights is so inane it is pitiful. It is your desire to control that is causing the conflict. And I would fully back a bill that would hold employers partially responsible if they stripped their employees right to self-defense from them in the employers quest to control, and that employee is harmed by crime going to or from work. You want control? Fine. Now comes the responsibility!

12 posted on 05/09/2009 8:57:30 AM PDT by ex 98C MI Dude (All of my hate cannot be found, I will not be drowned by your constant scheming)
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To: ex 98C MI Dude

It used to exist. People like you drove it out for personal convenience. The control freaks on the Left and Right are equally to blame for our current condition.

Doesn’t make it right, though. Your backing of a law that shifts blame from the perpetrator to the business owner is not better than a call for gun control by liberals.

We’ve forgotten the quintessential meaning of liberty. Sad.

If my control of my property, the product of my labor, is “illusory at best” then I am a slave, no?


13 posted on 05/09/2009 9:35:37 AM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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