Comments on: Bring your gun to work? House votes yes.

By: Enigma

Enigma — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:04:22 +0000

Just FYI… currently as I write this there is a hostage and shooting situation still going on at the Discovery Channel headquarters over in Maryland. If that were here, especially under this bill, you’d have several law-abiding, responsible people that could defend their fellow coworkers–including those who think guns should be banned from law-abiding citizens. Something to think about. Oh yeah, and by the way, these kinds of things rarely happen here in VA for that same reason–we can have guns Maryland can’t.

By: PAPPY

PAPPY — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:42:39 +0000

My car, no matter where it is parked is an extension of my home. And if we give the business owner the right to dictate what I can have in my car, should he also be able to dictate what I have in my home?

By: angel

angel — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:46:47 +0000

lo siento,pero pienso

By: Ryan Charles

Ryan Charles — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:10:34 +0000

The article states “Employers are also concerned that having guns on the premises raises the potential for workplace violence.” I make a statement for the contrary. Anyone who doesn’t see value in preserving the ideals of our 2nd Amendment has not considered that there has been, and always will be people out there who simply do not care about other people. By restricting gun carry rules all you are doing is lessening the chance that a law-abiding citizen will have a firearm to protect all of the sheep out there that don’t believe in owning guns. Go ahead detractors; make your obligatory “how about just calling the police,” remark. You do that, and see how long it can take for them to respond, and then time that against how long it takes for a law abiding citizen with a concealed carry permit who knows how to use it to respond. Crooks and evildoers don’t care about laws, good citizens do. Stop de-arming the law-abiding American! You are making it too easy on the bad people of this country! Glad to see good sense prevailed in this case.

By: Leif Rakur

Leif Rakur — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:25:35 +0000

With the erasure of its well-regulated militia clause, the Second Amendment has been neatly remodeled into a marketing slogan. Gun sales should continue to soar.

By: Philip Van Cleave

Philip Van Cleave — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:23:05 +0000

The article is misleading because it doesn’t show some of they key exceptions. Read them for yourself – here is a link to the bill (fairly short) that passed the House:

http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB171H1

Here are the exceptions:

D. This section shall not apply to (i) property on which a person is prohibited from possessing a firearm by § 18.2-308.1; (ii) vehicles on property (a) to which access is restricted or limited through the use of a gate, security station, or other means of restricting or limiting general access onto the property; or (b) upon which a building occupied by a single employer and its affiliated entities is located and in which access to the building is restricted or limited by card access, a security station, or other means of restricting or limiting general public access into the building; (iii) vehicles owned or leased by an employer or business entity and used by an employee in the course of his employment; or (iv) personal vehicles while such vehicles are being used for the transport of consumers of programs licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; (v) vehicles on property controlled by an employer required to develop and implement a security plan under federal law or regulation.

By: Robin Schroeder

Robin Schroeder — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:23:02 +0000

With the overwhelming number of critical issues facing our legislature, the time and energy (and lobby dollars) being spent on this issue stupifies me. We are unemployed with staggering healthcare costs which render us unable to compete in a global marketplace and our cars could fall in the potholes on our state roads and disappear. (which by the way, mine actually has, and now our road is closed for the next 6 months). But our elected officials want to be sure we can carry our guns. I suppose that this is so when we can’t look after our sick children, feed them or pay for their education since we are unemployed, we can sit in the parking lot and shoot ourselves with the guns we have the right to carry. The only concern then, is will we have enough police and emergency response funding to have someone respond to the call and clean up the resulting mess. I for one, am so relieved my gun rights are intact. It will keep the ligation field fully employed when angry employees or disgruntled spouses can show up legally in a business parking area and business owner can be sued for not providing adequate security.

By: james

james — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:50:48 +0000

Better to bring your gun to work than your children. Children run all over the place and you have to watch them constantly. Your gun stays in your glove compartment. You don’t have to yell at it to sit down and be quiet. You always know where it is.

Seriously, I gotta disagree with my good friend Keith Cheatham here. The government doesn’t have the right to tell the owner of a legally registered firearm that they can’t carry that weapon where they like. And I believe the law says the gun will be locked in the car at all times while on the property. A person has a right to be protected and the police cannot be everywhere.

By: Ed Gooding

Ed Gooding — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:42:55 +0000

>> If you feel the necessity to bring a gun to work, it might be time to consider a career change. <<

How about if I just want to take my son or granddaughter hunting right after work and don't have time to go home and change and get my shotgun? Why would that require me to change my career?

By: Scott Dickens

Scott Dickens — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:28:38 +0000

We finally get smoking out of bars in the interest of “public health,” but now you can bring guns to work and to the bar with you afterwards? One step forward and four steps back.

If you feel the necessity to bring a gun to work, it might be time to consider a career change.