Comments on: Our Legislature Is Different

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:41:50 +0000

On one side you have businesses who enacted a “no gun” policy based on liability issues from workplace shootings, basically a CYA resulting from lawsuits from actual cases of people “going postal”. Now you have this law.

The thing is, the people who would be calling out for this law are exactly the sort that make cops worry, paranoids who have to have a gun close by.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:30:32 +0000

You have to wonder who was behind this, because it is a very weird law.

Dan Gelber, speaking of Florida’s stand-your-ground law that was passed a few years ago:

“The NRA is a victim of its own successes. No political party in Florida today is going to advance any serious gun-control agenda,” said Gelber, a Democrat. “What’s left is these little things which have no impact on every day life, but inspire and activate the base.”

that strikes me as a plausible explanation.

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By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:17:13 +0000

There was a time, a few decades ago, when many people took rifles to work so they could go deer hunting during the short season in the Fall. You can’t do that any more, because there are just too many crazy people around.

Back then you didn’t need to lock your car every time you stopped anywhere, but these days a gun in the car is almost guaranteed to be lost as your car gets broken into by people who know you have it.

This is stupid and unnecessary. Without this law, the owner could call the police immediately if someone came on the property with a weapon, but that option is lost. You have to wonder who was behind this, because it is a very weird law.

By: Cookie Jill

Cookie Jill — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:21:20 +0000

Take your kid to work + Take your gun to work = trouble.

What next? Take your gun into cockpits day? (teasing…)

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:36:50 +0000

I “took a gun to work” most every day for twenty years, and I sort of noticed that I haven’t been shot at since I stopped. OK, so I was in the military and law enforcement during that time, but still.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:06:41 +0000

Maybe instead of “going postal”, we can refer to the next wave of workplace shootings in Florida as “going Peaden”. Just sayin’…

– Badtux the Snarky Penguin