NBC takes on Guns in the Workplace.

Don’t expect NBC to be fair and balanced, even if they did Interview some pro-gun people in their article: Guns in the workplace: A safety issue or a nightmare? 

Here are some highlights:

In more than half of states in the U.S., an employer is legally required to let employees bring their guns to work and keep them in their parked cars.

 

True. Not as great as keeping it with you, but we’ll take it.

“Gun-control advocates say permitting firearms at the workplace gives disgruntled, possibly unhinged employees easy access to a deadly weapon.”

Sure, because a disgruntled employee can’t drive home, get his gun, and go back to work.

Dudley Brown, executive vice president of the National Association for Gun Rights, characterized a gun in the parking lot as a tool for an employee’s self-defense. “Why would someone who installs cable be denied the right to have another tool for their job? How about guys who work on a rural basis, where law enforcement is 30 minutes away at best?”

 

Not a bad argument, Dudley, but even if the LEO is 5-minutes away, I rather have a gun that’s 2-seconds away. Rural gun ownership is great, but we need to promote URBAN gun ownership since urban areas are growing faster than rural ones.

Workplaces were five times as likely to experience a homicide when they allowed guns compared to those that prohibited all weapons, even after adjusting for other risk factors, according to a 2005 workplace study by the University of North Carolina.

They don’t list the source of the study, so I can’t verify it. Knowing how liars used statistics, I doubt it’s accuracy.

According to January data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, just over 550 people are killed every year, on average, in work-related homicides (which includes guns as well as other weapons). In 2010, more than 10 percent of all workplace fatalities were homicides, 78 percent of which were shootings. That year, the most recent for which the BLS has data, 405 people were shot and killed at work.

 

Did the BLS count self-defense shootings as work-related homicides? Gunssavelives.net has more than 999 stories of armed self-defense, plenty of them occurring in the workplace

Letke said these laws put pressure on supervisors to recognize red flags that could escalate to violence, without infringing on employees’ right to privacy. “The gun laws have created for us and our clients a source of frustration,” she said. “You’ve got to balance that right to bear arms with the safety of the workers and the workplace.”

If safety is greater than freedom, there would be no coal miners, no fishermen, no soldiers, no loggers, and no smoking in Casinos. Besides, what about my right not to die because you decided to create a gun-free zone the crazies won’t respect? The 2nd Amendment is clear, don’t like it? Move to another country. The other day I read a female sheriff in Mexico is seeking asylum in the United States. See? That’s what gun control gets you, a country where the criminals aren’t afraid to issue death threats and actually shoot the private residence of a cop.

“It’s difficult to balance the rights of the business owner, in this case, with the rights of a citizen,” Brown acknowledged. “If you really consider the second amendment as a property right… the property right to own a gun is the same as a property right for a business owner to decide what happens on their property.”

Why is it that business owners only have “rights” when it comes to gun on their property? You never see liberals advocating for the right to pollute, the right to discriminate on the basis of race or sexual orientation, the right not to pay minimum wage? Yet when it comes to the 2nd Amendment, suddenly businesses have “rights.” This is laughable considering how many of them have benefited from corporate welfare, Volkswagen and Amazon had roads built for them as an incentive to set up shop in Tennessee. The guns in parking lot bill TN passed was a compromised, employers can still fire you if they discover you’re keeping a gun in your car, so you have to be discrete.

Companies in more states could confront this issue in the future. Legislators in Pennsylvania, South Carolina and West Virginia are considering similar bills.

There’s no guarantee any or all will become law at this point, since the bills are at fairly early stages in their respective states, said Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP attorney Nicholas Andrews. He pointed out that pro-gun sentiment is high in West Virginia, where six other gun-related pieces of legislation have been proposed this session.

 

And that is one reason I’m smiling. Folks, in spite of everything, we are winning.