Be very nice to fellow employees, starting July 1.

[wrobert]

Crist signs 'guns-to-work' bill

Gov. Charlie Crist has just signed the controversial bill (HB 503) prohibiting businesses from barring workers from bringing guns to work and leaving them in locked vehicles. Only employees with concealed weapons permits would be allowed. Businesses could also not post signs banning customers from doing the same.
And with that, the Florida Retail Federation and Florida Chamber of Commerce will be filing a lawsuit challenging the law, scheduled to go into effect July 1. More on the suit here.

 

[Smiling JOe]

Why wait to be nice to them? I think the car is viewed as an extension of a person's home or person, and is unlawful for an employer to regulate what can be in the auto. Next thing you know, employers will not want employees to keep cigarettes and coffee cups in the car. Personally, I am more concerned with the cell phones in the car (and I use one) and the car itself, than I am with a gun which is kept in the car. Statistically, employees are more likely to get killed by an auto crash than gunshot wounds.

 

[wrobert]

Why wait to be nice to them? I think the car is viewed as an extension of a person's home or person, and is unlawful for an employer to regulate what can be in the auto. Next thing you know, employers will not want employees to keep cigarettes and coffee cups in the car. Personally, I am more concerned with the cell phones in the car (and I use one) and the car itself, than I am with a gun which is kept in the car. Statistically, employees are more likely to get killed by an auto crash than gunshot wounds.

Sheesh! Did they issue all you moderators buckets of ice water?

 

[Smiling JOe]

Was my post that cold?

I think many out of town SoWallers, at least some of the active ones, have arrived in SoWal, and are out on the town and eating at all the tasty places. I saw quiet a few of them today, and two said that they left the puters at home, intentionally!

 

[TooFarTampa]

But did they bring their guns?

 

[rapunzel]

You know, if someone asked me to pick 10 friends or acquaintances to carry around a sealed vial of anthrax around with them for a year I'd have a hard time coming up with a list of people I'd trust with that kind of responsibility. I bet most people would. But if the deadly item is a gun, so many people are so gung-ho that everyone have the right to walk around with the power to dole out death (and by default provide others with that same access by virtue of the gun's presence).

I'm all for the second amendment, and believe there should be an armed citizenry to ensure there is an out clause on the social contract of our government should it begin to curtail civil liberties. Taking guns to work is not defending Man against tyranny, it's manifestation of gun worship.

When I worked at Blue Cross, a man killed his wife in the parking lot one evening. She was one of my co-workers, and she had been given the gun to "protect herself' from him. He didn't show up in the parking lot that night with a gun, but when things didn't go as he'd hoped, a gun happened to be there.

I just don't get why people need guns at the mall. Are there a lot of tyrants hanging out at Auntie Anne's Pretzels?

 

[Jdarg]

You know, if someone asked me to pick 10 friends or acquaintances to carry around a sealed vial of anthrax around with them for a year I'd have a hard time coming up with a list of people I'd trust with that kind of responsibility. I bet most people would. But if the deadly item is a gun, so many people are so gung-ho that everyone have the right to walk around with the power to dole out death (and by default provide others with that same access by virtue of the gun's presence).

I'm all for the second amendment, and believe there should be an armed citizenry to ensure there is an out clause on the social contract of our government should it begin to curtail civil liberties. Taking guns to work is not defending Man against tyranny, it's manifestation of gun worship.

When I worked at Blue Cross, a man killed his wife in the parking lot one evening. She was one of my co-workers, and she had been given the gun to "protect herself' from him. He didn't show up in the parking lot that night with a gun, but when things didn't go as he'd hoped, a gun happened to be there.

I just don't get why people need guns at the mall. Are there a lot of tyrants hanging out at Auntie Anne's Pretzels?

Snicker.

I just don't "get" the gun thing. I never will. We don't have use for anything other than a BB gun, and even that is unnecessary - Darg Vader uses it to shoot those aluminum cans that are attacking us constantly.:roll:

 

[beachmouse]

Little blurb in the editorial section of the daily fishwrapper today mentioned that there had been a couple of studies comparing workplaces where employees were allowed to keep guns in cars to places where they weren't. One study said that fatal violence was five times more likely at workplaces where guns were allowed in vehicles. Another study said that fatal violence was 3-7 times more likely at workplaces allowing guns in vehicles.

So call me not in favor of this new law.

 

[30A Skunkape]

Yet another compelling reason to await the arrival of a welfare check in the safety of one's own mcmansion.

 

[Bob]

You know, if someone asked me to pick 10 friends or acquaintances to carry around a sealed vial of anthrax around with them for a year I'd have a hard time coming up with a list of people I'd trust with that kind of responsibility. I bet most people would. But if the deadly item is a gun, so many people are so gung-ho that everyone have the right to walk around with the power to dole out death (and by default provide others with that same access by virtue of the gun's presence).

I'm all for the second amendment, and believe there should be an armed citizenry to ensure there is an out clause on the social contract of our government should it begin to curtail civil liberties. Taking guns to work is not defending Man against tyranny, it's manifestation of gun worship.

When I worked at Blue Cross, a man killed his wife in the parking lot one evening. She was one of my co-workers, and she had been given the gun to "protect herself' from him. He didn't show up in the parking lot that night with a gun, but when things didn't go as he'd hoped, a gun happened to be there.

I just don't get why people need guns at the mall. Are there a lot of tyrants hanging out at Auntie Anne's Pretzels?

well-written, but you are surrendering to the actions of the lowest common denominator