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Blogging may be light but here are some links that are related to make an overall point. TriggerFinger notes that in the 20th century, over 170,000,000 people were killed at the hands of their own government. In Zimbabwe and Darfur, genocide is happening right now. The problem in Zimbabwe has even prompted a Canadian to accept that there is a universal global human right to arms.
David Hardy notes an interesting read entitled Negroes with Guns:
When the Klan came shooting, it soon found that its targets shot back. A Klan cavalcade (sort of a mass drive-by shooting) came to shoot up the home of the vice-president of the chapter, and found a number of members in sandbagged positions with rifles. After a gunfight, the Klan abandoned that approach . . .
Also, in Oklahoma, a law has been passed stating that employees cannot be prohibited from keeping arms in their personal vehicles by their employers. I personally don’t understand why that would need to be a law. After all, my car is my property, rather like my home. TriggerFinger rounds up the issue. I concur that self-defense rights trump property rights. And Matt notes that at least one court agrees.
Err, there’s a point in there somewhere.
June 13th, 2005 at 11:17 am
To the extent it “needs” to be a law, it “needs” to be a law because employers who notice their employees bringing firearms to work, even if left in the car on the company parking lot, have a tendency to go all nervous-like and fire the employee.
June 13th, 2005 at 12:45 pm
The reason it needs to be a law is that the general rule is at-will employment. Left unchecked, that rule woudl allow employers to make any rules they want. Sure, you have a right to own a gun on your own property, but you don’t have a right to work for any particular employer.