Open carry and corporate security
For the corporate security manager, this movement has direct implications. First, the business is going to have to face questions as to whether it has policies about guns on its premises and what those rules are. For Starbucks, there is currently no rule forbidding legally carried weapons on the premises. Other businesses do have such rules; the New York Times article specifically notes that California Pizza Kitchen (a West Coast pizza chain) and Peet’s Coffee and Tea (a Starbucks competitor) do disallow weapons, even those that are legally carried.
March 10th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
I only got through the first page, it was too weird. First “do disallow weapons”, is their something wrong with “prohibit”. Or would that be much to the point.
Another is:
I’ll give it a shot. How about a policy that any brandishing or threatening will be reported to the police for investigation since such activity is generally illegal. And, oh, I don’t know, the weapon may not be removed from its holster (or vehicle if not holstered) while on the property, except for immediate use for self defense or defense of others from imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury. I believe those policies do not “skirt the law” but run imbed inside it.
March 10th, 2010 at 6:20 pm
The author really tried to hide his anti-gun (or at least anti non-security personnel) bias behind very technical terminology. But it just kept floating up to the surface. I got part way into the second page before I just couldn’t stand to read anymore.