Florida Poll about law to allow firearms in cars at workplaces

[Ohen Cepel]

Sticky from a friend of mine. Please see link and vote if interested.

Florida is getting ready to pass a law allowing gun owners to possess weapons secured in their vehicles on "open property" belonging to corporations that don't allow their employees to bring weapons into the work place. This is very much like the situation in Oklahoma at ConocoPhillips and Halliburton where employees were fired for having legally owned/secured weapons in the vehicles, even though there was no corporate policy against it. Florida is trying to prevent that stricture by having a law making it legal.

The Orlando Sentinel is conducting a survey, and if you want to express your opinion about this proposed law, I wish you would. There is nothing it the survey that says you have to live in Orlando, or Florida. Remember, Florida was the first state to pass the Carry Concealed Permit law, too. Thanks for listening.

www.sun-sentinel.com/sfl-100305poll,0,7350068,post.poll

 

[Standing Wolf]

76.0%
I'm in favor it it. Companies should not be allowed to limit workers' constitutional right to bear arms. (7191 responses)

24.0%
I'm opposed to it. Allowing people to have guns at work is dangerous. (2269 responses)

9460 total responses

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[Aguila Blanca]

Done.

Currently running 78.5% in favor

 

[Don of Kalifornia]

And now it'd up to over 84 %..keep voting

 

[cosmos7]

I'm opposed to, but not for the above reason. I just don't believe we should be diminishing private property rights for this. I realize it may be difficult in some instances, but if you want to carry and your company doesn't like it, park off-site.

 

[Gannet]

And if there isn't any off-site parking, which is often the case, then what?

Property owners don't have a right to expose their employees to unsafe conditions. Witness OSHA, smoking bans, etc.

Nor is the content of employee's private vehicles any of the company's business.

Your property rights are fairly sacrosanct as long as it's just YOU on your property, and as long as your actions on that property don't endanger others. Once you invite the public, or employees, then the rest of us have an interest, and regulations ensue. Nothing new about that.

 

[Gray Peterson]

I've kept saying this to people, and they don't listen.

Your HOUSING property is DIFFERENT than your BUSINESS property. The problem here is that people don't see the difference when they should. Nobody in their right mind would suggest that a homeowner be forced to open up their homes to firearms if unwanted. The problem here is that they keep putting business property to the same standard as your housing property, which is flat out not true.

I say that your car is your castle just as much. If they can ban you from possessing a gun on property in your own car, then they can ban you from owning guns, period. With people like Toby Hoover and company calling for businesses to fire CHL holders in Ohio for merely possessing said CHL, it's time that we start protecting firearms ownership status in the same way as religion and creed, both of which are CHOICES.