A very Bad Law

[lizbud]

A bill that passed both houses & now goes to the Govenor to sign into
Law. I really hope he vetoes it, but it's doubtful he will.



Lawmakers Approve Workplace Guns Bill
Some Exempt From Measure

POSTED: 9:16 am EST March 5, 2010


INDIANAPOLIS -- In a victory for gun rights over property rights, the Indiana General Assembly approved a bill that lets workers keep firearms locked in their cars in trunks or out of sight while parked on company property.

The Indiana House approved the bill 74-20 Thursday and the Senate passed it 41-9. It now goes to Gov. Mitch Daniels.

A last-minute compromise exempts some public utilities and chemical plants and agencies whose drivers transport developmentally disabled people.

The bill also exempts schools, child care centers, domestic violence shelters and group homes.

Opponents said the bill can lead to workplace violence. Supporters said it merely allows people with legal rights to carry weapons to keep them locked up in their cars at work.


Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

[Freedom]

As someone who was in a workplace when an ex came in and held his former wife hostage, requiring all of us to scurry out of the building on our hands and knees, I see NO reason for people to need guns in their cars at work!

Goodness, whatever are they thinking?

[Puckstop31]

All I can say is this... It all comes down to the root failure of every gun control law that ever was passed, or ever will be passed.


Only the law abiding care about gun laws. Pass all the "feel good" laws you want. Criminals will still do what criminals do.


End of story.

[DJFyrewolf36]

All I can say is this... It all comes down to the root failure of every gun control law that ever was passed, or ever will be passed.


Only the law abiding care about gun laws. Pass all the "feel good" laws you want. Criminals will still do what criminals do.


End of story.

I have to agree with you. A criminal has no care if he is breaking the law...if he did he wouldn't be a criminal.

[Lady's Human]

The first sentence SHOULD read "In a halfhearted victory for constitutional rights"

Because that's all it is.

[lizbud]

I guess I should feel lucky that THIS idea for a law got press coverage,
but did NOT make it into law.

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dl...ID=20102250470

[Lady's Human]

The criminals already carry guns in city parks.

THEY are the ones you should worry about!

[wombat2u2004]

I think disarming the public is a crazy idea.

[lizbud]

Nobody has said why having a gun in their car assures them any
protection. Oh yeah, tell the the looney bird at work to wait to fire
his gun , while you race outside to arm yourself.

I found this article addressing the same topic. I agree with the President
of Indiana Chamber of Commerce on this.

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dl...ID=20103050339

[Lady's Human]

It avoids the idiocy in several cases where employees have been fired for having a gun on company property when all they did was have a gun in their car in the parking lot when they were coming back from hunting.

Besides, why should the company give a damn?

The all or nothing idiocy is annoying. You KNOW who you need to be worried about, pay attention to them, leave the law abiding population alone and stop trying to make criminals out of them.

[wombat2u2004]

You KNOW who you need to be worried about, pay attention to them, leave the law abiding population alone and stop trying to make criminals out of them.

Hear hear.

[Freedom]

I think -- scratch that, I KNOW -- that if one of the other folks working in our building had a gun in the car during the situation I lived through, things would have been a LOT messier than they were. The police took 27 hours, but they talked the guy out, no shots fired. Got him to let his ex wife out after barely 3 hours.

[Puckstop31]

Nobody has said why having a gun in their car assures them any
protection. Oh yeah, tell the the looney bird at work to wait to fire
his gun , while you race outside to arm yourself.

I found this article addressing the same topic. I agree with the President
of Indiana Chamber of Commerce on this.

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dl...ID=20103050339

And just like EVERY time the anti-gun types preach that a pro-gun law will result in a blood bath... Peace breaks out.


Often, I find myself armed in places where it is technically a "gun free zone". I wonder what the property owner would do should I have the opportunity to save their life someday, due to me having that firearm?

Say what you want... I don't care and never will. God has granted mankind the right, via proven natural law, to defend himself. No government, no law can rightfully prohibit this right. I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6.

I fully welcome any debate on this topic.


Support a cure for hoplophobia!!!!

[Puckstop31]

I think -- scratch that, I KNOW -- that if one of the other folks working in our building had a gun in the car during the situation I lived through, things would have been a LOT messier than they were. The police took 27 hours, but they talked the guy out, no shots fired. Got him to let his ex wife out after barely 3 hours.

You KNOW? Pray tell, how?

How many bad guys were there?

[Puckstop31]

Hear hear.

Uhhhhhhh....

http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...736501,00.html



"But these changes have done nothing to reduce gun-related deaths, according to Samara McPhedran, a University of Sydney academic and coauthor of a soon-to-be-published paper that reviews a selection of previous studies on the effects of the 1996 legislation. The conclusions of these studies were "all over the place," says McPhedran. But by pulling back and looking purely at the statistics, the answer "is there in black and white," she says. "The hypothesis that the removal of a large number of firearms owned by civilians [would lead to fewer gun-related deaths] is not borne out by the evidence."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1736501,00.html#ixzz0hMmlXdL0"