The TN parking lot bill and more
There’s a bill in Tennessee, a companion to the bill saying employers can’t prohibit you from keeping a gun in your car in their parking lot, stipulates that an employer may not discriminate against gun owners. That is, they can’t discriminate against you if they find out you own guns.
The Volkswagen and FedEx security chiefs testified against the bills. Their testimony is mostly crap.
March 8th, 2012 at 1:30 pm
Communist Plank #1, destroy all private property rights
March 8th, 2012 at 4:44 pm
I’m all for property rights, John Locke ain’t got nothin’ on me, and I’m also for fundamental individual rights like self-defense.
So, until the day employers, and property owners of places of public accomadation, are free to hire or fire, include or exclude, at will and for whatever reason they wish, regardless of race, creed, color, sex, gender role, sexual preference, height, weight, BMI, eye color, clothing choices, smoking habits, drinking and drug habits (that don’t otherwise effect public safety of course), etc., etc., ad nauseum; no one should try to claim that requiring employers to allow lawful, peaceable carriers to store their weapons in their own vehicles in a non-physically secured parking lot open to the general public is somehow “the final straw on the back of property rights.”
March 8th, 2012 at 4:56 pm
Bad idea, my property my rules, at my business i let folks store their weapons but it is my choice. Some of my suppliers don’t and i understand. government already takes enough property rights, employment is voluntary you don’t have to take my job if you don’t like the rules.
March 8th, 2012 at 7:08 pm
You’re property rights end where mine begin. The inside of my car is mine.
March 8th, 2012 at 7:09 pm
After heraing Fed Ex boy, I will ONLY use them if there is no other shipping option.
March 8th, 2012 at 7:31 pm
+1 on Robb’s comment!