The NRA is trying to get laws passed which would force me to allow guns on *MY* property. My property. That I own, that I pay the taxes on, the NRA sez I have to let employees or customers carry guns onto my property. They claim gun rights trump property rights.
I own guns. I know how to shoot guns. I don't carry a gun to work. It's not appropriate, it's not professional, it's not something which reassures my fellow employees or customers, I don't do it and I choose to not associate with others who do haul shootin' irons to work. You have a right to keep and bear arms. I have a right to tell ya, do your keepin' and bearin' someplace else, not on my property. That's my right as an American, and the NRA wants to take my rights away. Well fuck them and the horse they rode in on too. 'Nuff said on that.
-- Badtux the Well-armed Penguin
1 day ago
This is something I've been screaming about for years. Back in 2006, I posted a long piece when the NRA tried to ram one of these "forced carry" laws through the Legislature in Oklahoma, and again in '08 after a similar drive in Georgia (as I noted at the same, "and if Georgia , rebel stronghold that it is, didn't pass this the first time around, you know it's a bad law").
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, you will probably be subjected to the same blistering criticism -- and a couple of thinly-veiled death threats -- that I received.
Good luck, brother.
The NRA has moved from a gun rights organization to a "my gun rights supersede any of your rights" organization. In other words, they are no longer Americans.
ReplyDeletethe right to bear arms
ReplyDeleteis not really a right
more like a privilege
turned into a blight
so how many guns
does one truly need
some people have arsenals
is it insanity or greed
now guns in the workplace
please give me a break
how many must die
to end this mistake
guns are for hunting
sometimes self defense
machine guns and handguns
just don't make any sense
the NRA is a disease
that creates misdirection
this country needs help
to end this infection
Florida law allows you to store your arsenal in a privately own vehicle in the parking lot, but it also allows you to shoot anyone you think is a threat on your property, so you can't tell people they can't bring guns to your parking, but it's OK to shoot them if they do.
ReplyDeleteThis is what passes for thought in the Florida legislature.
Bryan
I agree entirely with your stand on property rights but I don't think you do. Maybe you do but then you must support the right of a racist not to serve the race he is biased against and the right of a bar owner/ restaurant owner to allow smoking in their establishments.
ReplyDeleteBrent, please tell me the difference between these two categories:
ReplyDeleteCategory One:
People packing visible six-guns on their hips
People with visible piercings
Women wearing daisy dukes and halter tops
People browsing porn at the job
Category Two:
People who are African-American
People suffering from cerebral palsy
People who are elderly
Women
What is the difference between these two categories?
Hint: Category One is comprised of (poor) choices that people made, and if those people come to my doorway and ask for a job, I'm well within my rights to tell them to go away. But the government won't let me do that for the people in Category Two. So what is the difference between Category One and Category Two?
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Gave up yet? Okay. Here's the difference. If you come to my doorway with a six-gun on your hip, and I tell you to go away, you can go home, leave the six-gun at home, and come back. If you come to my doorway and you're black, on the other hand... well, you're born black, you can't leave it a home.
In short, Category One is choices people made. Category Two is things people have no control over. You can't decide to be born black. You simply are born that way. You can't leave being old at home. Once you become old, you're old. I can tell you to leave your gun at home if you want to be on my job site, and you can leave your gun at home. I can't tell you to leave your woman-ness or black-ness at home, because it's something you were born with. Thus why it's illegal for me to discriminate against you on that basis -- if you made bad choices, fine, but we've decided, as a society, that discriminating against you for the way you were born and have no choice about is just plain wrong.
- Badtux the Choices Penguin