[William Tell]

qam1 said: "A workplace is private property and if the owner doesn’t want guns on their private property then they have every right to ban them. "

I have offered a solution to the conflict between private property rights and the right to self-defense.

Most large companies are corporations; that is, they are entities which owe their existence to the legislation which allows their creation and which endows them with limited liability. There is no "right" to form a corporation and doing so involves seeking permission from a government to do so and obeying the corporation laws within the jurisdiction permitting the incorporation.

I would see nothing wrong with adapting the corporation laws such that corporations do not have the private property right to infringe the right to self-defense in their parking lots.

Those who wish to conduct business without the benefits of limited liability can continue to enforce their private property rights as they see fit. If a person comes to harm because of the policies of such a private business, then the owners of that business will face full liability for the harm. Those who wish the benefit of limited liability will have to recognize that there is a price to be paid in exchange for that human-created benefit.

[qam1]

Replace “right to self-defense” with “Affirmative Action quotas” which could just as easily be mandated by the government and you will see what's wrong with that idea.