Nothing wrong with an honor system. So your boss trusts you--hey, he doesn't know you like I do. :-)
“A covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void.” - Thomas Hobbes.
Hobbes was an idiot, but this statement is almost true. Not completely true, but almost. Regardless, it has nothing to do with this case: the parking lot owner forbids the parking of cars containing weapons. This is not the same as requiring you to submit to a mugging, although you may find it inconvenient to defend yourself without a gun.
If the risk of a mugging is so very high, I would (1) negotiate with my boss to allow guns, or maybe (2) park somewhere else, or maybe (3) hire a security escort service, or maybe (4) convince the boss to hire security guards, or maybe (5) carry a gun but store it off the premises, for example in a rented locker next door to the workplace, or maybe (6) carry a switchblade or ballistic knife, or maybe (7) study Tai-Chi as a martial art, or maybe (8) carry pepper spray, or maybe (9) change jobs to a safer neighborhood, or maybe...
If you honestly bought Hobbes's reasoning, and you really believed that it was applicable, you would insist on carrying a gun inside the office as well.
If you are dealing with honorable people... trouble is, there is no way to know if a stranger lurking in a parking lot is honorable. In most cases they are not... (You don't want the rape and robbery statistics on that.)
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If you honestly bought Hobbes's reasoning, and you really believed that it was applicable, you would insist on carrying a gun inside the office as well.
The nature of my previous occupations required it.
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But, unless nobody is the wiser... for my purposes, if it were necessary; a Seecamp LWS in my boot or a flat dagger up my sleeve would go unnoticed.
I really think both extreme sides on this issue are equally ridiculous...
“For God's kingdom was in [Israel], and the nations round about were the kingdoms of the Enemy.”
Still true today... isn't it?