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Seems some Indiana employers don't want their employees to bring guns to work.

Apparently this is a problem.

The Senate has approved a bill that would allow employees to bring their gun to work and leave it in their car.

Opponents of the bill say a person’s right to carry a firearm shouldn’t overrule a business’s right to control its property.

Advocates say the bill is needed so that Hoosiers can protect themselves going to and from work.

What do you say?

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Minnesota's conceal and carry law allows establishments to ban guns from their premises, but only the building. If I have a permit to carry a concealed weapon, and choose to do so, my personal vehicle should be a legal place for that weapon to be stored. People worry too much about the licensed firearms, anyway. In my state, since the inception of the conceal and carry standards, there has been not a single incident of gun crime by a licensed, legally carrying gun owner. It's been 5 years now, at least.

I hope so. If a gunman comes to my kids' school I would feel better knowing a teacher could whip it out instead of waiting for the police to show up. It would most likely save lives.

I think the possibility of you needing that gun to protect yourself is not as great as the possibility that some kid gets his hands on it.

A teacher successfully dis-armed a gun wielding student the other day, without the use of a gun himself.

"I'm just, ah, going out to my car for a sec. BRB!"

I'm of two minds, personally. The likelihood of a gun being stolen from a car skeeves me a little bit; presumably most people would lock them away in the trunk so they're at least not visible and they're more than a broken window away. Slightly more.

On the other hand, a person's car is private property, even if it's parked on someone else's property.

I was thinking more of carrying it on their person or locking it in their desks during the school day.

My son can get in to a lot of things, but he can't get at my guns. Not even the one I keep in the living room by the front door.

Toddlers are 3 footers. 4 footers are like 5 to 8.

I sure will.

It's our god-given right to have a Kevlar vest.

Now lets see him do it from the other side of the gym.

Red,



You're right we should just take the french approach and pretend guns were never invented. Problem solved.

"Shoot the ******* first" is not a valid principle for people with bad reflexes, which is most of the country.

Why do you hate Americans and not want them to have a chance to shoot back?

Wow, that brought back a really buried visceral memory. Being pretty young, and into the desk-and-chest-of-drawers dismantling stage. The memory of the smell of wood, and the look of different joins, and finding the zig-zag joins curious. Pushing in draw bases, and forcing the old lock on one of the bureau doors that didn't really work well any more. I think my sister inherited that bureau. Ha ha, sucker.

There were a lot of mismatched glasses in that bureau, and I loved the little sherry glasses, so dainty and pretty. And curious shallow, wide glasses on stems. My mother said that they were an old design of champaigne glasses, and the design of the bowl part was modelled on Marie Antoinette's breasts. I loved things Mum told me when I was a little girl.

The willow pattern china was kept in there too. Mum tried to sell it off in a garage sale last year, and my sister swooped in and rescued it, thank god. How could she get rid of the willow pattern china??? It was so staid and old fashioned and boring when I was young, and so precious and redolent of memories when I was older.


Edited, Feb 26th 2010 7:17am by Aripyanfar