[Marcella]

“You and I can’t always avoid going to a gun free zone, but the shooters are positively drawn to them.”

If you have concealed carry permit, carry it anyway, save everyone’s life, then say you didn’t see the gun free zone sign. Of course, don’t carry if there is a scanning device to go through. In that case, don’t go in that place.

[null and void]

*shrug* A courthouse is relatively safe, they're usually crawling with armed bailiffs and cops.

Airports? Wouldn't enter on a bet.

[Boogieman]

I don’t have a concealed carry permit, so I just carry “Gun Free Zone” sign around with me :)

[a fool in paradise]

My last employer in a Houston office building downtown would not generally evacuate in the case of a fire (and you were not to leave either). Sometimes, if there was indeed a fire, you might be instructed to temporarily move several floors UP.

Such idiocy is what helped contribute to thousands of deaths on 9-11-2001. The building next to mine gets hit by a low flying jet airliner? BYE. I'm gone for the day. Personal time if nothing else. No more work is going to get accomplished that day anyway, with office chatter and announcements, anyway.

Once it was determined that FOUR planes had been hijacked (with more suspected, including more box cutters located on grounded planes), I still would've taken a personal day REGARDLESS of what city I was in. In the end, most offices nationwide DID send employees home around noon that day.

I dealt with having to drive headon into incoming thunderstorms in Houston (worked near Tomball) because my employer would wait until the bad weather REACHED THEM to determine that maybe some employees should "leave early".

I do not look to any employer to have my best safety interest at stake. They are concerned with maximized work effort with minimal loss/accountability. It is part of that reasoning that makes them bind their panties in a wad at the concept of another employer taking DEFENSE into his own hands.